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Votes & Oil. As in Teheran, elections were going on ail over Iran. Though crude and undemocratic by Western standards, the balloting process fits the pattern for Iran, which is backward, deeply infiltrated by a Communist underground and inexperienced at combating the enemies of democracy with democratic methods. The current elections were efficient and peaceful by contrast; in Mohammed Mossadegh's 1952 elections, the balloting lasted five months and at least 50 were killed...
Fatal Gifts. Overpopulation of the agricultural countries, says Brown, is actually aggravated by the well-off industrial countries. Their medical science, shared with the best of motives, has cut death rates all over the world. Birth rates in the backward areas have not fallen much. Unless they fall much faster, he says, most of the world will become a permanent and hopeless slum...
...this area, where Latin American interest in intense, the Conference may produce tangible results. Sincere United states efforts to improve the economies of Latin nations will not only eliminate mistrust, but also help remove the breeding grounds of communism. In countries with backward economies communism has its greatest appeal. By bolstering its American allies, the United states can help safeguard the hemisphere from this threat. but economic cooperation will remain only a hope unless the present issue is settled and the air cleared for concerted action...
...prior to the general elections in May. Anti-American feeling hardly exists in Turkey. Though they snap at each other, Turkey's two major parties agree, as President Bayar recently told a U.S. audience, that "private enterprise is the best system [for] rehabilitating a country that is economically backward...
...Stattin was at his spectacular best on the horizontal bar, brought ohs from the crowd as he twirled around the bar like a human propeller. Quickly, Stattin reversed his hands and direction, crossed his hands on the bar, did several handstands, and capped his performance with a double backward somersault which dropped him to the mat with a sure-footed slap. In all, Stattin won four firsts (horizontal bar, parallel bars, long horse and rings), a second in calisthenics, and a fifth in side horse (where the Illini scored a 1-2-3 sweep...