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As recently as five years ago, a birth-control conference would have been unthinkable in South America. Yet there it was last week, in Colombia's rising industrial city of Cali, and on hand for the discussions were 70 edu cators, sociologists, medical men, government welfare workers, demographers and...
The Grain Drain. The crises that confront India are grave indeed. First on the list is the perennial problem of providing enough food for a population that is growing at a rate of 3% a year. The cause of last year's food crisis was simple enough: for three...
Millions for Subsidies. Though sales are falling and unsold stocks of coal above ground have doubled in the last seven months, the West German government last week bowed to election-year pressures and decided to increase subsidies to its faltering coal industry, which already receives more than $150 million a...
To Knopf's surprise, the demand for The Prophet doubled the following year -and doubled again the year after that. Since then, annual sales have risen almost at an exponential rate: from 12,000 in 1935 to 111,000 in 1961 to 240,000 last year. Today, with more...
Southeast Asia's local bankers have customarily operated on two principles: keep interest rates up and keep controversies with the government down. The maverick Bangkok Bank has reversed both principles, yet has become the largest commercial bank in Thailand. It has increased its assets tenfold in the past ten...