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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expert. Formosa now has a population of more than 10 million and one of the highest rates of population increase (3.6%) in the world. Even with heavy expenditure on land reclamation and irrigation, Formosa's currently well-fed citizens will either have to cut down their eating or start importing food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Ten Years Later | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...semiliquid mass like peanut butter. This is pumped with extreme care into the rocket casing and cured by gentle heat to turn it into an elastic solid. Then a mandrel in the center is pulled out, leaving a roughly star-shaped cavity on whose surface the fuel will start to burn when the rocket is fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Solid Progress | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...Gaulle thinks NATO's structure could be more efficient. For example, he thinks that there is too much integration in the army command, necessitating a discreet balance between generals and staff officers of the various countries. He won't change the structure by himself, but he would like to start negotiations to change...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: The Gift of Laughter | 11/28/1959 | See Source »

...times per day--perhaps at 9 a.m., 3 p.m., and 9 p.m.--so that students would not be confined to Lamont itself as a study area. To facilitate the operation of this system, reserve books would be due back at Desk 3 and Desk 1 thirty minutes before the start of the next check-out period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamontmanship | 11/27/1959 | See Source »

...League as yet; it may be next fall.) When the Crimson did get excited about these mid-week encounters, it was usually over some real or imagined scoring record. In the season's opener against Tufts, the varsity tallied six goals after its customary slow start; since the 1958 team had also notched six scores, the Crimson went all out for a seventh, which never materialized...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Soccer Varsity Captures Ivy Title, Wins Nine Sparsely Attended Games; Bagnoli, Sweeney, Hedreen Stand Out | 11/25/1959 | See Source »

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