Word: skeptically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Birth-control advocates insist that unless drastic measures are taken now, India's population will totally outstrip its national resources by 1985; in Punjab, for example, land holdings are already officially limited to 30 acres. Even Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, once a skeptic on the subject, now agrees. Boasts Nehru: "There is more talk and action on birth control in India officially than in any other country." As if to back up his claim, the Indian government last week announced that the current sterilization campaign is only the beginning. It figures that if 2,150,000 Indians were sterilized...
Even to neutralists' skeptic eyes, the contrast between Ike's performance and Khrushchev's was stark. Eisenhower's remarks were not particularly eloquent, and invoked no propagandistic emotions: they were in West Point English, basic, clear, specific. Khrushchev (who advised reporters to "bring your lunch") showed the bad habits of speaking to captive audiences. And in showing his underlying hostility to the U.N. as a rival world system, the Russian badly miscalculated. His audience, the new nations of Africa and Asia, is fiercely loyal to the U.N. With little room for positive proposals left...