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...Neither unprecedented generosity by the wealthy nations, nor maximum exploitation of known farming techniques, nor anticipated scientific breakthroughs can win what Rural Economies Expert Egbert deVries calls the "stork-farmer race." Unless the experts are underestimating the potential for new discoveries in food production, population control is the sine qua non for solving the problem of world hunger...
...developed that negative anyway, and it proved another picture entirely. Rhoda turned out to be a close relative of Tevye, a fiddler on the rueful whose face could shine with puzzlement as well as wisdom while she searched for career, meaning, laughs, irony and that sine qua non of the not-quite-liberated Msfit, a husband...
...Spectators at the cover-up trial will not see the showmanship of an F. Lee Bailey or the suave assurance of a James St. Clair. A former Marine captain and star blocking back at the University of Wyoming, Neal is not even especially eloquent. His strength is the sine qua non of all great trial lawyers: preparation. During the past months, he has often put in ten-hour days with a single Watergate wit ness, then worked on into the night cross-checking each statement. Neal's concentration is total. After he had spent a long session with John...
...baking. James Beard's elegant book on breadmaking (Beard on Bread, Knopf) has sold a phenomenal 50,000 copies since October -at $7.95 apiece. Fleischmann, the G.M. of leaveners, reports a first-quarter increase over last year of more than 40% in sales of yeast, a sine qua non of most serious breads...
...Portuguese would not have taken to the streets, no longer afraid of the fascist police who'd tortured dissenters for 46 years. In the same way, getting rid of Nixon is a necessary first step toward real change--not a guarantee that it would come, but a sine qua...