RELIEF: The Unorganized

A Scottish nutrition expert with the longest white eyebrows in public life last week took the center of the world food stage. Sir John Boyd Orr (65), Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, convened his group in emergency session in Washington. "This is no '90day' crisis," Sir John warned. An organization must be established to see "that the people of the world will never again suffer from famine."

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson (who was elected chairman of the meeting) and the delegates faced a confusing wealth of suggestions....

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