Word: problems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Adam, or rather ever since Eve joined him, mankind has faced the problem of overpopulation. But until less than a month ago, few people payed close attention to the danger of too many human beings...
...homebuilder's plan to sell roughly one-fifth of an adjacent 51-home development to Negroes. That night her husband joined 600-odd other homeowners in a march on the town board meeting in the grade school gym. There an angry 1½-hour session proved that the problem of integrated housing can be as grim in northern suburbia as anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line...
...diet were determined by strictly scientific considerations, what would it cost him to live? Brown University researchers fed the problem to an IBM 650 electronic computer, last week reported the answer: 21? a day. Caring nothing for variety or any other of life's spices, the computer solemnly accepted the facts that a man must have certain minimum quantities of protein, calcium, iron, phosphorus and five vitamins. Then its nerve cells went to work, concluded that only four foods are needed to sustain life: lard, beef liver, orange juice and soybean meal...
...other views of the birth-control problem, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
While it is apparent what might be accomplished by Ike's Grand Tour through Asia his attempt to pursue the same approach in Europe reveals the failure of his administration to come to gripes with the concrete problems of western alliance. Le grande de Gaulle is unlikely to be swayed by Ike's folksiness. Nor does the "new Eisenhower" seem much more likely than the old Ike to restore unity within the alliance over the timing of a summit conference, the solution to the problem of Germany, or the developing clash between the inner six and the outer seven...