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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Pratt Fairchild, professor emeritus of sociology at New York University and a proponent of birth control, declared that "for the next few decades," a stationary world population "would do more for the cause of lasting peace than any other specific measure." Added Dr. Fairchild: "War cannot be counted on to keep population within bounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, Dec. 13, 1948 | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...Communists feel? Mijnheer van der Meulen was regretful. "I would like to be helpful," he said; "we used to have some Communists in the plant. But now we have only one left, and I'm afraid you cannot meet him. We've given him some time off. You see, this week he celebrated his fiftieth anniversary with the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Galveston v. Peat Bogs | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

With the temperature difficulties eliminated, the supports may be able to correct the pesky bulge. If not, the mirror will be taken out of the telescope and the bulge polished away-a six-months' job that cannot be started before spring. At intervals, the mirror would be put back into the telescope for the only conclusive kind of testing: on the stars themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Trouble on Palomar | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...Youth and the Church." Their comments seem to bear out Waugh's indictment. "I have not been to church since confirmation," declared Bobby-Soxer Karin Eriksson; "I don't want to be a slave to any God." "And I don't go to church because I cannot stand the overbearing condescending manners of preachers," stated Gunnel Sandstrom. "What we need," said 18-year-old Gustaf Renneus of Kungsholm, "is a priest who is also a sportsman, one who talks our language without any humbug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Priests in Tweeds | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...Harvard Legal Aid Bureau announced yesterday a new set of officers headed by Donald C. Lubick 3L as president. The Bureau furnishes legal assistance to residents of Cambridge and Greater Boston who cannot afford to retain an attorney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legal Aid Elects | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

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