Word: thant
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...Nations and the Poor Nations (1962) and Progress for a Small Planet (1980); of cancer; in Lodsworth, England. A onetime assistant editor of the Economist and the wife of the Australian diplomat Commander Sir Robert Jackson, Ward became an influential adviser on international economics to U.N. Secretary-General U Thant and to Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. The technologically and economically advanced nations "are remaking the face of the earth," she once wrote, but she warned that "by indifference and by a narrowing of the heart," the rich and complacent were in danger of losing contact "with the urgent...