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FOOD The First Battle In the up-to-date comfort of a vast glass-and-marble honeycomb on the edge of Rome, the U.N.'s 77-nation Food and Agriculture Organization met last week to talk about hunger. Binay Ranjan Sen, the former Indian diplomat who had just been re-elected FAO's director general, called for a speedup in "the fight against hunger and malnutrition," and touched the world on one of its rawest nerves...
...Deceptive Gloss." From the often lackadaisical FCC came the strongest pronouncement to date. Said FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer: "A failure to distinguish between the freedom to express . . . ideas and the indiscriminate hawking of wares . . . has brought the advertising and broadcasting industries to the brink of strict Government controls...
...Lincoln. (But Chrysler laid off more workers, stopped production of its Valiant.) With American Motors and Studebaker-Packard also operating five days, the industry's output for the week was 67,100 cars, up from 64,233 the week before. In midweek the year's production to date crossed the 5,000,000 mark...
There are several further disturbing elements in Rockefeller's activities to date. Some result from flaws in the Presidential nominating system which force candidates to play both to the mass primaries and to the organization-controlled conventions: others are directly traceable to his own political attitudes...
Long before his death in 1931. Poet Vachel Lindsay was out of date; chanting about the heartland seemed naive to readers caught by the puzzles of The Waste Land. In the age of Eliot. Lindsay was remembered chiefly as the eccentric and faintly embarrassing author of two throbbing poems, the boomlay-booming Congo and General William Booth Enters into Heaven. Yet 15 years earlier, few had doubted that he was a genius. Author Eleanor Ruggles (Prince of Players: Edwin Booth) avoids outright judgment, but the sum of her sympathetic, somewhat sentimental biography seems correct: Lindsay was less than a major...