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The article focuses on the issues on the restrained revolution of the newspaper industry in Asia. Press Foundation of Asia director Amitabha Chowdhury says that Asian newspaper is unable to maximize its revolution as it lack some powerful catalysts including lower newspaper price, market identification, and media design. It states that despite having press freedom, some constitutions in Asia are being suspended for emergency conditions; thus, shows press freedom to be on the hands of the government. It adds that the industry also faces economic problems such as finance for newsprint, modern equipment, and their own plants and the purchasing power of customers. It explores the conditions of newspaper industries in various Asian countries including Burma, Ceylon, and Philippines.

The article focuses on the convalescence of the U.S. foreign aid program, which is recovering gradually from multiple sclerosis. Previously, support for European recovery, for investment and technical assistance in Asia and Africa, for economic co-operation with Latin-American neighbors, even for the exchange of students and artists, had to be justified by reference to a new all embracing criterion, expressed in the word "security." Now it is "mutual security" rather than "economic co-operation." The foreign aid agency in its successive reincarnations was progressively weakened by internal disorders. The U.S. foreign aid effort is still too timid, too spasmodic in its financing, too rigid and centralized in its administration. However, the last year or so have seen evidence of real progress in controlling the symptoms. The most acute symptoms are disappearing now, and convalescence has begun. The program's leadership is no longer totally preoccupied with presidential ambitions or even with Ohio politics. The people and their Congress are impressed with the Soviet Union and seem to have decided that there must be something good about the U.S. foreign aid after all.