Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Time & Tolerance. Despite the favorable omens under which Nigeria was born, the burdens on Sir Abubakar's slender shoulders are awesome. The diversity that gives Nigeria's government a kind of built-in system of checks and balances also poses the ever-present threat of fragmentation; to weld Nigeria's 250 major tribes with as many languages into a single, indivisible nation will require not only time but tolerance. With only 175,000 pupils receiving secondary education, schools are desperately needed. In terms of university graduates, Nigeria is better off than the Congo, but there are still...
Peru. A rigid feudal system controls most of the nation's land and wealth. Peru's mass-based APRA is firmly anti-Castro, but it has no chance of instituting social reforms until elections in 1962; in the meantime, a new, nationalistic party is rising to chip away APRA's strength...
...Mexican government has not done this out of any affection for Castro or belief in his system. It fears his appeal to its own poor peasant masses. But to come right out and say so would be going too far. The spark of the 1910 revolution still flickers, and Mexicans rarely let an opportunity pass to demonstrate their independence from Washington. But meanwhile, the streets are quiet...
...determined. India's annual population growth would fill a city as big as New York, and there is always the prospect of not enough food to go round. Government officials get impatient over the incompetence and indifference with which many Indians use contraceptives. Attempts to introduce the rhythm system failed in India, even when poor villagers were given strings of calendar beads (green for "safe" days, red for "dangerous"). Some peasant women thought the beads were magic, moved them about until they reached a green bead before intercourse. Last year the Indian government officially endorsed sterilization and budgeted...
Such advances in the flexibility of the telephone are the result of a $25 million 50-year research effort; it produced a completely new electronic switching system that works 1,000 times faster than current dial telephones. The heart of the system, housed in several neat rows of grey cabinets in Electronic Central office at Morris, is 12,000 tiny transistors that control or amplify electrical current pulsing through a myriad of miniaturized devices, including 105,000 diodes, 23,000 neon-filled tubes that glow orange as they connect one telephone with another in a few millionths of a second...