Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...levels, proposes to halt no major projects except nuclear power for aircraft carriers. The rising cost of arms is met mainly by the timeworn device of "stretching out" procurement and development schedules on hardware. The stretch-out looks fine on paper; it keeps programs alive at a reduced spending rate, preserves the same high-sounding force goals for the future-but only pushes the future farther into the future. Actually, in the day of inexorable change the stretchout wastes more money than any other budget practice. It postpones operational dates on entire weapons systems beyond the time when they...
...expected to increase by about 49 million people in 1959, may well jump from the present 2.8 billion to more than 6 billion by the turn of the century. And because the first impact of modern medical techniques on a primitive society is a startling drop in the death rate, the bulk of this explosive population increase has occurred in the underdeveloped nations: the combined population of Asia, Africa and Latin America has increased by 600 million since 1936, is expected to jump another billion...
What can be done to break this "cycle of poverty"? Among professional students, of the food problem, the fashionable answer is that proposed in Rome last week by Arnold Toynbee: "Conscious efforts to keep the birth rate under control." The catch in birth control, as Toynbee himself admitted, is that "the initiative is in the hands of the world's private citizens," and planners have so far been unable to break down what he regards as a combination of instinct, ignorance, custom and religious belief that keeps the "underprivileged" defiantly reproducing when planners wish they wouldn...
...Technological Trap. For FAO's Binay Sen, the prime answer to the world's hunger lies not in birth rate or food giveaways but in the diffusion of advanced agricultural techniques-chemical fertilizer, better seeds, soil improvement. To persuade the conservative, generally illiterate peasants of Asia or Africa to learn and adopt such techniques will, as Sen admits, require years, perhaps decades, of effort. And agricultural technology by itself will not solve the world's food problem. The kind of productivity which enables one U.S. farmer to feed 22 people would create economic chaos in a nation...
Profits for Peking. Paid to study for five years, a student need never leave the premises. He gets a private room at low rental; no Moscow hotel serves better food than his cut-rate cafeteria. He can warm his mind in the 1,200,000-book library, cool off in the massive swimming pool. His labyrinthine alma mater is a self-contained city, with 133 elevators and miles of columned marble corridors; its 45,000 rooms include 168 lecture halls and 1,700 first-rate laboratories. Geography students alone have 20 labs, featuring such (militarily) educational gadgets as special projectors...