Word: problems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seoul still presents a problem awaiting solution...
...since 1798, when the Rev. Thomas Malthus gloomily concluded that "the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man," had Western statesmen and thinkers been so preoccupied with the physical problem of feeding the world's people. At the Rome meeting, British Historian Arnold Toynbee apocalyptically declared: "Sooner or later food production will reach its limit. And then, if population is still increasing, famine will do the execution that was done in the past by famine, pestilence and war combined." In Washington, NATO Secretary General Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium...
What can be done to break this "cycle of poverty"? Among professional students, of the food problem, the fashionable answer is that proposed in Rome last week by Arnold Toynbee: "Conscious efforts to keep the birth rate under control." The catch in birth control, as Toynbee himself admitted, is that "the initiative is in the hands of the world's private citizens," and planners have so far been unable to break down what he regards as a combination of instinct, ignorance, custom and religious belief that keeps the "underprivileged" defiantly reproducing when planners wish they wouldn...
...advanced agricultural techniques-chemical fertilizer, better seeds, soil improvement. To persuade the conservative, generally illiterate peasants of Asia or Africa to learn and adopt such techniques will, as Sen admits, require years, perhaps decades, of effort. And agricultural technology by itself will not solve the world's food problem. The kind of productivity which enables one U.S. farmer to feed 22 people would create economic chaos in a nation where two-thirds of the population remain farmers. Unless it is accompanied by a general increase in national prosperity, an increase in agricultural production is a delusion...
...problem is going to be in the backfield, from which almost every one of the League's top performers is graduating. (Chet Boulris, Dartmouth's Bill Gundy and Jake Crouthamel, Brown's Paul Choquette, Yale's Rich Winkler, Penn's Fred Doelling, Princeton's Dan Sachs, Cornell's Marcy Tino and Phil Taylor). In addition, the Crimson is losing starters Albie Cullen and Sam Halaby...