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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same forum, the Crown Prosecutor of Ceylon, Neville Kanakaratne, defended his country's so-called "neutralist" foreign policy by asserting that military alliances tend to aggravate tensions while participants lost independence of judgment. He defined Ceylon's foreign attitude as one of "noninvolvement in the military policy of foreign blocs...
...large extent, Beberman and Page have cast aside the traditional tags (algebra, geometry, trigonometry, etc.) that tend to make math seem a series of separate and unattached compartments. "Frequently," says Beberman, "our students do not know whether they are doing geometry or algebra at any given point.'' But the basic intent is to reveal math as a "creative process in which we want our students to participate." Instead of telling students how to solve equations, "we just explain to them what the root of an equation is and then give them 30 pages of problems and tell them...
...issue date. Among these foreign subscribers, the most common name worldwide is Smith (it's Hansen in Scandinavia, Singh in Asia, Garcia in Latin America). For the most part the subscribers are in business, government and the professions. But whatever their names or jobs, these overseas TIME families tend to support our original assumption. Says the TLI history: "Our readers abroad are a remarkably homogeneous group-a kind of worldwide family whose fundamental likenesses are not obscured by differences of race, religion or national allegiance...
Like citizens of underdeveloped countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, many Latin Americans tend to assume that dependence on agriculture keeps their countries poor, and that the fast, easy way to national wealth is forced-draft industrialization. One result is that agriculture remains, by and large, woefully inefficient. Countries in which more than half the labor force grows crops or raises livestock use scarce foreign exchange to pay for imported foodstuffs-and are still...
Infinite Variety. The Barrons achieve their effects by designing electronic circuits that they think express certain emotional characteristics when attached to a loudspeaker, and they tend to call the circuits "characters.'' One expresses anger. Another they call Chloe, because it sounds to them like the lost swamp girl. Some express themselves in a kind of melody, or at least in a series of pitch changes. To provide a sound accompaniment to a film scene, the Barrons kept altering circuits until one expressed what they were looking for. Then they combined it with others, recorded the resulting series...