Word: problems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army officers. The new emphasis on agriculture instead of impractical steel plants has resulted in the nation's biggest postwar rice crop. The previously soaring cost of food was solved overnight by raids on warehouses that proved heavily stocked with hoarded goods. Currently, Burma's greatest problem results from the thousands of Chinese fleeing across its borders to escape the iron grip of the people's communes...
...letters be forwarded to Mamie Eisenhower. As the snowball grew, the U.S. Information Agency stepped flatfootedly into the picture. "Stripped of its emotionalism, distortion and heated charges," said the U.S.I.A., "this city's much publicized 'kissing incident' essentially becomes a question of the rehabilitation of two problem boys and their families." It quoted the vice president of the local N.A.A.C.P. as "not certain that the training school is not the best place for the boys...
...Biggest problem remains how to contain the reacting material (usually deuterium), since the star-hot temperatures generated by fusion would melt any known substance. Physicists have tried magnetic bottles, in which the particles are forced together by powerful magnetic fields and held there without touching the walls of the apparatus. But present magnetic bottles are unstable. They bulge and flutter, permitting their contents to escape. More current would produce stronger magnetism. But if coils are fed too much current, they get too hot and melt...
...picture. The facts were all there-the drumhead justice, the full-length profiles of the dramatis personae in a national upheaval. The meaning was not. Publisher John S. Knight (Miami, Akron, Detroit, Charlotte) openly criticized both A.P. and U.P.I, for "obscure coverage." But the blame was wider and the problem deeper than the press services...
...Clark lined up his 16 students and announced firmly: "It is my intention to awake a lofty ambition in you, and to turn you into gentlemen and Christians, so that you may control your appetites and passions and thus conquer the sin of self." The Yankee educator eased the problem of appetite control by smashing all his scholars' sake bottles, made the students promise to shun both weed and wine and to glorify God. Classes began with hymns and prayers, and the first question on Clark's first examination in physiology read: "Furnish evidences of the existence...