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...leisured, complacent life, the compulsion for adventure was far from stifled; rather, it flared forth in a golden age of English exploration and mountaineering. Similarly, but even more so, many Americans of the 1960s refuse to react to prosperity as though it were the smoke from the poppy seed, and instead feel it as the thorn that goads them toward the bold, dangerous and somehow immensely satisfying fundamentals of existence...
...Africa; The Southern Courier, established by Harvard students to provide accurate reporting of civil rights news in the South; Miles College, one of Alabama's few Negro colleges; an American Friends Service Committee project to help Vietnamese refugees; and Phillips Brooks House. The emphasis this year is on providing "seed money" to help and encourage worthwhile but struggling ventures...
Within the Economics Department itself, the response has been enthusiastic. One assistant professor said that the recent changes indicate that "Harvard's on the move again" in the field of economics. Another faculty member said that the new policy is making the department a "seed-bed of research...
What is needed are cheap, long-term credits for the purchase of seed, fertilizers and equipment; and heavy investment in agricultural schools, roads, plus storage, market and irrigation facilities. The food-poor nations, concludes FAO Director B. R. Sen, must quadruple their output in the next 35 years "to give their vastly increased populations an adequate, though in no sense lavish diet...
...affect," says Dr. Raymond L. Nace, a U.S. Government hydrologist, "we can say that he has scarcely made a dent." But scientists keep trying. Attempts at weather control, for example, have been as unsuccessful and unreliable as appeals to the rain gods of old, yet researchers continue to seed clouds with silver iodide and Dry Ice, hopeful that they may some day learn to manage what they cannot yet predict...