Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...potato famine provided a dramatic opportunity for the first suggestion. The scientists offered the Indians fertilizer, bug killer and a better strain of potato seed. The "medicines for the soil," as Cruz desc-ibed them, grew potatoes four to eight times bigger than Vicos had been producing. "Kcmi alii, kemi alii," said Cruz-''Very good, very good...
Americans take a certain patriotic pride in that record, but they can take little credit themselves for having achieved it. The tradition of "pure" science is a foreign one that had to be transplanted from Europe and virtually forced on American soil. Even today the nation spends, through the Government, $2 billion a year on science, but only about one dollar in 20 goes to pure science; the U.S. has more than 850,000 scientists and engineers, but only about 3% are engaged in fundamental research. The reason for the imbalance is that 1) such research seems dreamy and impractical...
...plan for coming abreast of the twentieth century, but the university student has had a hard time fitting into programs of village health, irrigation, or literacy. All too often, traditional desire for a white-collar job and his own economic poverty have led him to lose contact with the soil and trouble of village life and to veer toward the political left. The proposed Mutual Service Program would put responsibility squarely on two hundred students at Delhi and provide them with enough money for manual service during vacations, as well as village surveys and seminars during the school year. This...
...demonstrated the worthlessness of "adjustment periods"; the evidence on integrating all grades of school at once is not so clear. When the Court decides whether it wants simultaneous integration, or desegration that proceeds through the grades with next year's class of children, it strikes out on pyschological soil--it must weigh the enhanced efficiency of teaching and probably diminished bigotry of the grade-by-grade scheme, against the domestic problems for families with one child in a segregated class and another in a mixed group...
...Conversion. The seeds of anticlericalism are deep in Mexican soil. Hernando Cortes (1485-1547) fought and finagled his way through Mexico in the name of Christ as well as for the sake of conquest. The twelve humble Franciscans (later nicknamed "The Twelve Apostles") who followed the conquistadors' reign of terror were more successful missionaries. At the sight of the ragged friars padding doggedly through the mountains, the Indians sighed, "Motolinia, motolinia [Poor, poor fellows]." Generations of such brave, tough motolinias from Spain finally converted Mexico.* But on the Indians' simple faith, the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico grew...