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...know-how or the energy to raise itself from poverty and despair. To that extent, India's lethargy is a valuable check against firebrand revolutionaries who would hope to trade on Indian misery with offers of Marxist panaceas. Shastri's emphasis on agriculture is only a stop-gap measure, certainly not the ultimate answer to India's woes. Once it has learned to feed itself, it can then move slowly, sanely toward industrial self-sufficiency. It may take a bolder man than Shastri to carry such a program through. But somewhere among India's millions, among...
Regarding "the shortcomings of role of the law in effecting change," Zinn said there were problems. The first is "the gap exists always between law and . What happened in Selma the role of citizens in that gap," he asserted...
...deeply sorry to hear of Boris Artzybasheff's death [July 23]. His artistic integrity was rare and outstanding. He was the finest craftsman of our time, highly imaginative, most original in his concepts. The gap Artzy left may never be filled; he will be long remembered...
John Shepard, the manager of La Discotheque Nicole says that Cambridge has long needed a discotheque to bridge the gap between the record hop and the live band. A discotheque employs at least two high-fidelity turntables to provide continuous dance music and usually has a specially constructed dance floor. A discotheque also features moderate prices; the average tab at the Nicole runs two dollars per person...
...many of the young men who would normally have turned to the classrooms. When teachers now in their 50s and 60s begin to retire a decade from now, concludes Philosopher Georg Picht, West Germany will have to persuade 90% of its university graduates to become teachers to fill the gap...