Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Using information taken from census rolls, the students will visit assigned homes and inquire if the occupants have signed up. If they haven't the students will take down the names to make sure the people receive the proper enrollment forms in time for the March 31 deadline...
...AFGHANISTAN Under the Ministry of Agriculture, Volunteers will work in five experimental stations where they will demonstrate the proper use of fertilizers, seeding, irrigation, cultivation and harvesting. Each will work with a counterpart and train boys from surrounding farms and through them engage in extension work...
...bureaucracy" are pruned, and the fight is constantly being waged at the "grass roots." Mr. Villard also believes in the personal touch: he includes a detailed and scathing biographical sketch of John J. Rooney, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on State Department Appropriations, who opposes the use of the "proper lubricant" in diplomatic affairs...
Some futurists like to make predictions about homey details of living. The kitchen, of course, will be automated. An A.D. 2000 housewife may well make out her menu for the week, put the necessary food into the proper storage spaces, and feed her program to a small computer. The experts at Stanford Research Institute visualize mechanical arms getting out the preselected food, cooking and serving it. Similarly programmed household robots would wash dishes, dispose of the garbage (onto a conveyer belt moving under the street), vacuum rugs, wash windows, cut the grass. Edward Fredkin, founder of Cambridge's Information...
Though shortages could be largely alleviated by proper management of food distribution, the government has barely begun that task. In Kerala, where the food shortage has struck hardest because its 19 million inhabitants shun all grains except rice as "foreign food," people must now subsist on a daily rice ration of only 5 ounces. The Keralans have been rioting on and off for three weeks in protest, and last week the rioting spread to other rice-short parts of India. A 15-year-old student died of gunshot wounds after police fired on a mob attacking a police station near...