Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This represents just about all that can be usefully given away, says a senior U.S. Agriculture Department official. He argues that most poor nations (the polite expression used to be underdeveloped countries, but now planners speak of "emerging peoples") lack the distribution system necessary to get large quantities of free food to the people who need it-partly because their governments have not yet accepted moral responsibility for ensuring that every citizen should get an adequate diet. "And if the U.S. offered to construct such a distribution system," adds the official drily, "I do not think such men as Nehru...
...defense is the middle linebacker, and from coast to coast, he is getting the hero worship that was once reserved for the touchdown-happy backs. In Detroit, Joe Schmidt can do nothing wrong, although his Lions (2-6-1) can do nothing right. In San Francisco, small boys speak in awe of the thundering tackles of Jerry Tubbs. At a banquet in California, Les Richter of the Los Angeles Rams diagramed defenses for a solid hour and enthralled U.C.L.A. Physicist Joseph Kaplan, chairman of the U.S. International Geophysical Year Committee...
...FORD HALL FORUM. Dr. Rufus E. Clement will speak on Educational Integration in the South...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, will speak...
...companion and comforter. Tears in his own eyes, old Marigold proclaims the lovers man and wife with his blessing. Five years go by, when a tiny hand turns the doorknob of the cart door, followed by dark eyes and curly locks. "Grandfather," says the little girl. "She can speak!" cries Marigold, as "the happy and yet pitying tears fell rolling down [his] face...