Two separate commentaries agree that a unified Europe would provide the economic power structure needed to provide a secure position among superpower nations; economic power being preferable to nuclear power. (JB)

Surveying the complexity of the regional problems of Latin America, the author emphasizes the need to include a spatial or regional planning component in national plans. (RY)

Iranians are torn between a desire to change and to modernize and a resistance to depart from well established modes and patterns of life. (Author)

Comparative investigation of educational systems in the process of modernization in ten Asian, African and Latin American countries shows that an extensive network of vocational education not only does not always associate with successful modernization in terms of a fast rate of economic growth, but also that it does not necessarily produce…

Describes three educational programs operating on the Navaho reservation: the Rough Rock Elementary School, the Ramah High School, and the Navaho Community College. (JM)

Latin American history is an untapped resource for studying the synthesis of culture, the underdeveloped world, and social change. (VW)

The problem and potential of geographic factors, social institutions, power structure, population pressures, agricultural production, manufacturing, material productivity, Alliance for Progress, are discussed. (VW)

Reports on a study of a pre-cooperative (the Sidi Saad pre-cooperative, Province of Tunis) as an environment in which a functional literacy program, integrated with socioeconomic development, was to be developed. (EB)

Describes the Workers' Occupational Upgrading Program, which was instituted to train the manpower necessary for Spain's economic growth. (BH)

An evaluation of the effects of educational expansion on economic output between 1890 and 1960 shows (1) expansion at the secondary and doctorate levels was positively related to economic output since 1933; and (2) no effect of these or other levels of schooling on economic output before 1928 was manifested. (AOS)

Nettels' text, "The Roots of an American Civilization: A History of American Colonial Life," published in 1938, has enjoyed the widest sales of any text ever written on the colonial period. Never losing his concern for economic development, Nettels' interests in the 1940s and 1950s shifted to the American Revolution. (RM)