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Four page transcript of Turkish oral narrative story No. 885 titled "Clerical Politics among Some Hocas." The folktale was narrated in August of 1964 and is part of the Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative. ; Oral narrative of a Turkish folktale collected by Professor Ahmet Edip Uysal, Dr. Waren Walker and Barbara Walker (Mrs. Warren Walker). Each narrative was translated into English by native Turkish speakers (mostly students), paid for by the Walkers, who then edited the translations.

The PDF for the 11/21/58 meeting is 103 pages long and covers topics such as: course revisions; ratification of a contract between Texas Tech and the City of Dallas for senior Horticulture and Park Management class project; renewal of contract between the federal government and Texas Tech for air flight training; protest of action by the Texas Commission on Higher Education against the Museum and the nuclear reactor for the School of Engineering; awarding the contract for the construction of the new Classroom and Office Building; numerous building renovations and additions; and a recommendation for a joint committee from the public schools and Texas Tech to explore continued use of Tech athletic facilities.

The Technical Assistance Board, composed of a central secretariat and a network of Resident Representatives' field offices, plays a significant part in the planning, co-ordinat ing, and servicing of the United Nations Expanded Program of Technical Assistance. The success of the Program is evi denced by the almost unanimous support given it by both the receiving and contributing countries. The need and desire of improving the Program's impact upon the economic and social development of the world, requires constant evaluation studies and administrative adjustments to meet the realistic conditions determined from operation experience. The Resident Repre sentative, functioning at the country level, witnesses the tech nical assistance operation from the closest point and, therefore, holds a key position in guiding the administration of the Pro gram.

Since World War II, rapid advances in theory and hardware have given us a significant new technology of information processing with widespread applicability. Elec tronic computers are the most common manifestation of this new technology. Today, about 5,000 general-purpose com puters are in use in the United States, but more than 7,000 computer systems are on order. Computers are coming into use in such fields as machine teaching, language translation, medical diagnosis, air and ground traffic control, and weather forecasting. Prototypes of newer information systems promise pattern-recognition devices and self-programing machines. The most obvious advantages of automatic data processing are not likely to be the most important long-run effects of the tech niques. The most critical issues that arise out of the poten tialities of automation of information processing are not yet generally recognized.

The role of the United States in the Second World War and in world affairs since the war has established the im portance of American universities as a national resource for knowledge about the languages and cultures of non-Western peoples. Government agencies turn to the universities for specialized personnel, training programs, informed advice, tech nical assistance abroad, and mission-oriented research. But professional non-Western resources at universities have been extremely limited, and the government has recognized, in the national interest, a federal responsibility to provide direct financial assistance to strengthen the relevant academic enter prise. The central program of government support is Title VI of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) of 1958, which provides aid for language and area centers, for stipends for advanced university study, and for research and studies. A section of the Fulbright-Hays Act of 1961 has augmented NDEA support by provision of funds for travel and study abroad by American faculty and graduate students of non- Western studies.

Production from American farms is overflowing commercial markets not because high prices have pulled re sources into agriculture but because rapid technological prog ress has pushed productivity ahead faster than the slow expansion of markets and the withdrawal of land and labor from agriculture could accommodate. Substantial adjustment of farm resources is needed, but adjustment as it occurs in free markets cannot prevent chronic farm depression when tech nology is advancing rapidly nor are severely depressed in comes essential for adjustment. The case for control of market supply as the mainstay of domestic farm policy has become dominant in recent years. The means proposed include (1) a revised and gradually expanded program to retire voluntarily the poorest cropland and (2) direct controls, involving compul sory retirement of land, on the large-acreage field crops. Such a policy need not impair the future productivity of agriculture, but the amount of government intervention required remains an important obstacle to farmer support.

The contemporary realization of the importance of international progress in the economic and social fields, and particularly the development of the less-developed countries, has added a new dimension to foreign policy and resulted in vast foreign aid programs. Chief factors in this development are the unprecedented acceleration in population growth occur ring primarily in the less-developed countries least able to sus tain it, the "revolution of rising expectations," and Communist penetration. In addition to an increase in financial and tech nical assistance to the less-developed countries, the free world, building on strength, must emphasize that the purpose of eco nomic development is a social objective and that the methods used to promote development cannot be divorced from the overriding social objective without destroying the objective itself. Development planning should aim at balanced economic and social growth and stress economic programs with an early social impact in terms of improved levels of living, and social programs designed to further economic growth.