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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe that the problem of the underdeveloped nations is more lasting, more important for Western civilization than the problem of Soviet-Western differences. There are 1,700,000,000 people that today are living without sufficient food, shelter, clothing and health facilities. Now they are not going to remain quiescent. They are just going to have an explosion if we don't help...
...admits, require years, perhaps decades, of effort. And agricultural technology by itself will not solve the world's food problem. The kind of productivity which enables one U.S. farmer to feed 22 people would create economic chaos in a nation where two-thirds of the population remain farmers. Unless it is accompanied by a general increase in national prosperity, an increase in agricultural production is a delusion-as the U.S. has learned in Greece, where the work of a U.S. agricultural advisory mission has presented the country with an unsalable surplus of wheat, rice and tobacco...
Japan has one of the world's most admired architectural traditions, one that has influenced Western artists and architects from the mid-19th century to the present. But at home Japanese architects have long found themselves faced with a dilemma: how to be modern and still remain Japanese. When the modern movement was brought back from Europe by early Japanese students of Germany's Bauhaus and France's Le Corbusier (see below), the results were often merely derivative cubist modern...
Impressed by his sudden emergence into the limelight, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology invited him this fall to lecture as a guest professor. In Cambridge last week, Tange's thoughts were still in Japan; he was worried that too many traces of the past may remain in his work: "Tradition," he says, "must be like a catalyst that disappears once its task is done...
Although the synchrotron, or electron accelerator, has been in operation since September, several secondary projects remain to be finished...