Word: staley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's underdeveloped countries are now multiplying twice as fast as in industrialized societies. To support the extra population these countries are least able to afford, they are forced to consume less and produce more, and are falling ever lower in living standards. Said Dr. A. Eugene Staley, Stanford Research Institute's senior international economist: "Despite all the vaunted technological and economic progress of modern times, there are probably more poverty-stricken people in the world today than there were 50 years...
Pakistan to Peoria. While poverty is as old as mankind, a new and resentful awareness of poverty on the part of millions has become one of the most powerful forces in soth century society. This "revolution of rising expectations," as Economist Staley called it, has only intensified the struggle to seek a more abundant life. In India, for example, the market for bicycles is booming upward at 30% a year, while shoe sales are rising only 4%. Explained one village bicycle salesman: "The villagers are getting lazy. They don't want to walk any more; they want bicycles." While...
Born. To Lewis Hoad, 21, Australian Davis Cup star, and Jennifer Staley, 21, one of Australia's topflight women tennis players: their first child, a daughter; in Melbourne. Name: Jane...
...those days, pro football was a catch-as-catch-can collection of part-time players. Men like George Halas took over the tough job of turning the game into a moneymaking proposition. When the A. E. Staley Starch Products Co. of Decatur, Ill. decided to give up their team, Halas, who was the coach, bought the franchise and moved to Chicago. Now Halas was a triple threat: owner, coach and player all at once. Times were so tough he also doubled as trainer, ticket-seller and publicity man. Not until he signed the great Red Grange in 1925, was Halas...
Married. Lewis Hoad, 20, Australian Davis Cup star famed for his "big" game; and Jennifer Staley, 21, one of Australia's leading women tennis players; at Wimbledon, England...