Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bold new program" seemed tailor-made for Latin America. All 20 Latin American republics are "underdeveloped." They have been crying for economic help ever since war's end, when the flow of U.S. dollars southward slowed to a trickle. Would the "bold new program" solve their problem...
Thorp's committee has found that providing technical assistance to underdeveloped nations is no problem. Since 1938, the U.S. has spent close to $100 million doing just that for Latin America. This year, under the sponsorship of the State Department's Institute of Inter-American Affairs and the Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation, some 460 experts are on loan to Latin American governments...
...voting by McGill's 8,500 students (150 of them Negroes), Beryl had posted a decisive margin. The student council gave out no figures ("It might injure the other girls"), but it was satisfied with the election result. McGill's students, untroubled by any race problem, had merely voted for a popular and attractive girl, regardless of the color of her skin...
Word from Space. The problem of "midcourse guidance" might be solved, according to some experts, by automatic celestial navigation, the missile watching selected stars and steering by them. The "terminal guidance" problem, i.e., landing it on the target, is tougher. No one has explained publicly how a "seeing eye" could recognize a target by any influences it sent out (heat, light, magnetism) which the enemy could not screen off or simulate. The missile could not send back the observations of its eye by television, like the television bombs of World War II, for human brains to analyze. Since the very...
...Peter told the Pacific Congress about the difficult problem of clothes among the Polynesians. Early missionaries, shocked by their healthy nakedness, taught them to cover their shame with long, ugly Mother Hubbards. Now some of this teaching is wearing off. On certain islands, reported Sir Peter, the natives go naked on weekdays, wear their Mother Hubbards only for Sunday churchgoing. "They are in something of a quandary," he explained. "They have observed that the whites, who made them wear clothes, are wearing less & less themselves. 'Perhaps we were right about clothes in the first place,' the Polynesians...