Word: scales
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Vital as research is, victory over hunger also demands that backward countries scale new heights of social, political and economic organization. As the U.S. example shows, it takes vast amounts of capital-$30,500 per U.S. farm worker v. $19,600 for an industrial worker. Some experts figure that developing countries must invest $80 billion before 1980 just to feed their growing populations at today's unhappy level. Beyond that, there is a need for chains of agricultural-research centers and schools abroad, partly staffed by an army of young U.S. technicians-one Congressman would call them the "bread...
...proves those estimates correct, skeptics may be forced to harbor the notion that the hill site was quite possibly the site of Camelot-a somewhat less opulent Camelot, of course, than Julie Andrews and Richard Burton inhabited. Toward that end, Arthurians are now raising more cash for a full-scale dig next summer. What they really need to prove their case, is a tablet, plate or shield inscribed with Artorius, Dux Bellorum...
Neither SECAM nor PAL will be ready for any sort of full-scale operation until the fall of 1967. In fact, France's only going color setup is a closed-circuit link between the paddock and the betting windows at Longchamp race track. That made even more apropos the remark of French Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte, who claimed that France, in the hope of Europe-wide agreement, had so far been holding back its color TV industry "like horses at the starting gate." Said Peyrefitte: "Now we're telling them...
...issue of farm financing, it looked as if the whole European Community might fall apart. It was largely a struggle between farm-efficient France, which wanted low prices to open up the Common Market to its farmers, and factory-efficient Germany, which wanted to protect its uneconomical, small-scale agriculture. As was in evitable if agreement was to be reached at all, last week's pact was a compromise. It fixed the prices to be paid throughout the Common Market for beef, sugar, milk, rice, olive oil and fruits and vegetables. The prices are higher than those now paid...
...main problem with the late Beethoven quartets is one of scope. These works stretch the expressive potential of the string quartet to the limit. While they are conceived on a scale comparable to that of any of his major orchestral works, they face the tremendous problem of developing within the bounds of an idiom whose orchestrational possibilities are very limited. As a result, Beethoven sometimes demands more of the string quartet than can be done with the instruments at hand. His Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132, however, carefully skirts any such fault. Ideally played, it demonstrates true virtuoso quartet...