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...France, although the snail is an item on all good menus, Jean Cadart, snail lover and onetime snail merchant, discovered a serious lack: there was no up-to-date book on edible snails. The gap has now been filled by a book by Cadart himself. Les Escargots (Paul Lechevalier; 750 francs) covers the subject with airtight completeness...
RUBBER SHORTAGE will hit the U.S. by 1959, predicts the Commerce Department. Worldwide use of rubber is climbing 4% yearly, but natural rubber production is rising only 1%, and synthetic plants are not expanding fast enough to close the gap...
...major finding of the report is that an additional 3,675 doctors, nurses, and attendants are needed in the state hospitals. The state Senate is now considering a bill to meet this manpower gap over a period of four years by appropriating about $3 million extra per year. This figure, already supported by the Mental Health Commissioner and passed by the House, is the absolute minimum required, and should be approved now and expanded in the future...
Beyond meeting real needs both here and in India, the Mutual Service Program would help to fill a widening gap between the two nations. Without government aid or interference, a concern demonstrated by U.S. students for Indian students could go a long way toward developing a person-to-person bond between America and Asia's largest democracy. When organizations next fall consider whether to support the Mutual Service Program, they should remember that real mutuality and real service are the keystones both of this project and of international understanding...
...This concept is hard to pin down, even in societies with lower economic levels. With Americans it is all the more conjectural because an adequate supply of TV sets and pinball machines is harder to determine than an adequate diet level. Nevertheless, the economists figured that 1950's gap between needs and supply-$13.1 billion, or 6% of expenditures-would be slashed to $11.4 billion in 1960, only 4% of expenditures. The figures showed changes in types of shortage. Housing accounted for 30% of 1950's unavailable needs, only 12% of 1960's But more than half...