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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recommended by present day Malthusians and Eichmanns of food and population planning. It is quite clear to these new mandarins of life and death that some large populations have surpassed the carrying capacity of local resources, and should be allowed to fall back into a natural balance. Being the basket cases of development, they cannot contribute to Western resource needs, and only drain our scanty reserves of good-will. We would rather play on well-fertilized golf courses...

Author: By Nicholas Herman, | Title: Regulating the Poor and Hungry | 11/12/1974 | See Source »

Dave Bing and Bob Lanier led the Detroit Pistons over the Boston Celtics in a squeaker last night at Boston Garden, 105-104. Bing finished with 32 points, including the decisive basket that made the score 105-100 in the final minute. Lanier picked up 27 points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BING DINGS CELTS | 11/9/1974 | See Source »

...PRICES: The non-Communist world either is not keen on checking inflation or is incapable of doing so. Maybe this is why it does not want to establish a relation between the price of oil and the basket price of other commodities. I think I am rendering a service in proposing this linkage, almost to force you to check your inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Shah: Thoughts of a Royal Decision Maker | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

...given him an argument. Kemp, 34, is the Scottish creator, director and star of an unusual Broadway entertainment called Flowers, in which bizarre, dream-tinged themes involving homosexuality, masturbation, drag parties and transvestism are set forth in mime and in music. On opening night Mick Jogger sent Kemp a basket of lilies, and the critics sent Kemp a bouquet of reviews in which outrage mingled with fascination. "I don't want to shock people," retorts Kemp. "I want to astonish them." He has been deeply influenced by French Playwright Jean Genet and Mime Marcel Marceau. "To me," says Kemp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 21, 1974 | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

...BASKET THREE" OF THE CONFERENCE AGENDA: We are all for it "free movement of peoples, ideas and information across borders". We do not have any reason to be afraid of anything that would flow from the West here except perhaps for some things that we think are wrong, things of a moral nature, such as drugs, etc. For example, what would happen if several thousand streakers decided to come to Warsaw and run naked here? That would be an insult to our morality. I am not sure that the Catholic faithful here in Poland, of whom there are a great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Gierek: Building from Scratch | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

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