Word: problems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles of tangled underbrush. By map and compass they traveled at night, kept on alert all day (about two hours' sleep each), set off live explosive near TVA's Blue Ridge Dam. For food they had one C-ration can, a share in a live chicken. (New problem for the city-bred: how to kill and cook it.) They had learned in earlier problems to live on snake meat in Florida's Everglades, cross open country on a run (about five miles every 40 minutes). Sent to tactical units, the Rangers are under orders...
...Rumble. Aside from the problem of keeping Liberal and Conservative hands off the pistols, Lleras faces the inevitable beginning of grumbling among the havenots. Some 5,000,000 Colombians live in hunger, another 6,000,000 barely manage to cling to the lower fringes of an adequate living standard, while an elite 4.6% of the population has 40% of the national income. Spearheaded by a small but boisterous band of Communists and abetted by students, Bogota's hungry took to the streets in March to protest a bus-fare increase from 1.87? to 3?. For hours, they pelted soldiers...
...campaign by plastering Sweden with ads slickly arguing that a shorter week would mean "more homework and shorter holidays." Result: some 328,000 student voters (90% of the "electorate") voted for a six-day week by nearly three to one. This week Swedish officials are pondering their own problem in democracy: how to go ahead and introduce the five-day week without disillusioning the kids...
...much for the career-woman question. But there is another hour to fill-plenty of time to solve the race problem too. So meanwhile, back at the cold-water flat, the Negro maid (Juanita Moore) is having trouble with her light-skinned daughter, who is yearning for the day when she will be old enough to leave home and pass herself off as white. The day comes, the girl goes, and the scriptwriters settle down to the point of the picture: an interminable scene in which the poor old Negro maid dies of a broken heart. Excerpts...
Moreover, there is no tutorial; and want of focus can bring out the worst in a Wellesley education--a fine background, but no individual discipline worth attaching it to. Now this is a problem of most women's education--not just for oft-maligned Wellesley. Yet it seems more pressing for this college: for with its wealth of material: classes with a high average on the SATs, a low faculty-student ratio and a good endowment--it is geared to turn out enlightened, intelligent, and placid students. The waste provokes the maligning...