Word: problem
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Date. Faced with the same problem of continuing electoral defeat, West Germany's Social Democrats did exactly the reverse. Last November they junked nationalization in favor of a kind of New Deal capitalism, which would include "as much competition as possible, as much planning as necessary." Three weeks ago -a major post-summit switch-they abandoned their long insistence that Germany might strike a bargain with the Russians, giving up NATO membership in exchange for a unified (if neutralized) Germany. Said the party's Deputy Chairman Herbert Wehner: "Like the Christian Democrats' position, the Socialist position...
...goal is a 33% increase in food production in five years-enough to enable India to feed itself. Western experts think it can be done, but the problem narrows down to the special and often exasperating problems of "the man behind the plow," the Indian khaki farmer...
Last week NBC met the problem more effectively than it has ever been met in the past, by applying the light wit and dry satire of David Brinkley, in easy converse with the world's most informed straight man, Chet Huntley...
...once had its own answer to the problem and called it Ed Murrow. During long, dull stretches, Murrow and any number of imitators would deliver what amounted to a Politics I course as taught at Delphi. But last week most of the students cut the course. Eyes raking remote high 'corners at the broadcasting booth, head cocked into a single earphone, Murrow gave the impression that he was listening more to the rulings of the Supreme Chairman than to the conversation of his fluent, competent colleague, Walter Cronkite. Murrow is still television's big news name...
...life to the most irksome subject in U.S. high schools. Supported by $600,000 in grants from the Carnegie Corp., Beberman's system was taught this year to 8,000 students in 95 secondary schools across the country. Next year it will reach 120 schools. The only problem is a shortage of teachers versed in the method. At 34, Beberman has a full life's work cut out for him training them...