Word: births
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year is out, a treaty to halt nuclear proliferation; proposed an international program to tap the ocean depths; urged "a major expansion" of both the International Development Association and the Asian Development Bank; called for "a prudent aid program rooted in the principle of self-help"; and offered birth control advice to developing lands...
...mate last week in the Czechoslovakian newspaper Vecerni Praha was asking a question that echoes mournfully throughout Eastern Europe these days. Everywhere in the Communist bloc the institution of marriage is in trouble, and the proof of the malaise can be read in soaring divorce rates and declining birth rates. In Hungary, which has the lowest birth rate in the world, 13.6 per 1,000 people, more abortions are performed than there are babies born each year. One out of every four Rumanian couples got a divorce last year, as did one out of every three Czechoslovakian couples in Prague...
...divorce, and most now prohibit abortion except in unusual circumstances. In Rumania, where Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu has declared war on "levity toward the family," both doctor and patient in an abortion case get stiff prison terms. The government makes it so hard to buy contraceptives that birth control pills have become an appreciated currency for tipping-even for those who get hold of only a few weeks' supply but take them anyway, in the mistaken belief than an ounce of prevention is better than none...
...annual address from the pulpit of St. Giles's Cathedral, the High Kirk of Edinburgh, the Mugger reaffirmed his sympathies with the rebellious ways of youth, "up to and including blowing up this magnificent edifice." The point at which he lost touch, however, was the demand that birth-control pills be handed out at the university's medical dispensary. That sort of request, said Muggeridge, "raised in me not so much disapproval as contempt," and he resigned his post forthwith. "How sad, how macabre and funny it is," said Muggeridge, "that all they put forward should...
...readers really believe in palmistry, but for any who do or are interested in my predictions merely for the sake of entertainment, I can generally be found around Harvard Square. I read the right hand mainly. The left hand, according to tradition, is one's fortune at birth, his inherited fortune, while the right hand indicates what one is making of his fortune. It is therefore more current, more accurate for the present. I generally look first at the life line (the curved one nearest the base of the thumb) and give a prediction as to the length of life...