Word: todays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asia, Africa and Latin America there is still a painful dearth of leaders with the courage or wisdom to try to impress upon their people that national prosperity cannot be a gift from outsiders, that it can only be achieved by prolonged effort and by investing the fruits of today's self-denial in tomorrow's production. This, though no one in Rome last week dared say it in so many words, is the first battle that must be won in Binay Sen's fight against hunger...
...that had saddled Japan for centuries. And up from the ashes rose a new Japanese architecture that is attempting to blend modern technology with traditional Japanese needs and feeling for structure. Best of this new generation intent on making "something new of tradition" is Kenzo Tange, 46, who stands today at the crossroads where Japanese tradition and contemporary architecture meet...
...enterprise has come in since 1954 at the rate of $225 million annually, some 85% of it from Britain and the U.S. Britain is still Australia's biggest partner, but the U.S. is coming up fast. In 1948 the U.S. had only $115 million invested in Australia; today the kitty amounts to $670 million, and the forecast is for $1 billion in U.S. capital by the end of 1960. All told, 880 U.S. firms now do business in Australia. How well they do is evident from the statistics: a ten-year profit of $477 million, or better than...
...Marx, Author Russell demolishes the Red bogeyman not only for sociological or economic errors but for his faults in epistemology (theory of knowledge). Unfortunately, the power of logic stands somewhat diminished when Russell is bound to mention, almost as an afterthought, that "nearly half the world today is governed by states that put implicit trust in Marx's theories...
...close to what his father had wanted him to be, and since then, Rationalist Russell has frequently attacked religion. All the more notable is his conclusion that science can never say what ought to be done. In this view, the reader can find a reproach to the hubris of today's vociferous army of scientist-prophets, notably the late Albert Einstein in the U.S., J.B.S. Haldane in Britain, Joliot-Curie in France...