Word: controled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Presidential Academy. Plato proposed the idea in ancient Greece. He called for the institutionalization of promising youngsters, who were to be schooled thoroughly in mathematics, philosophy, fine arts and gymnastics. There would be no personal wealth nor family life-they would, however, be permitted to mate under "civic control" with specially selected women. At 35, the Grecian would graduate from the process as the perfect leader-void of personal ambition and with concern solely for the well-being of the Greek democratic system...
...problems of law enforcement. The National Governors' Conference, meeting in Cincinnati, adopted a resolution "recognizing crime in the streets of America as a problem which demands the utmost concern and attention of all Americans." For all their concern and attention, however, the Governors refused to endorse gun-control legislation, which is favored by police chiefs around the country. "Gun control isn't going to solve the problem," said Georgia's Lester Maddox. "Punishment and apprehension is the answer...
Pope Paul VI announced yesterday that the Catholic Church will continue its traditional ban on birth control for the members of the faith. In the encylical letter stating the position of the Pope, the contraceptive pill and all other mechanical and chemical means of birth control were ruled out and the rhythm method, the only previously accepted method for birth control in the church, was given limited endorsement...
...Roger Revelle, Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy and Director of the Harvard Center for Population Studies, called the decision "appalling." He said that the position of the Pope "serves neither the Catholic Church or Humanity," and concluded that man must rethink the moral and ethical arguements concerning birth control in the future...
...Revelle, who was vacationing in California when he was contacted for comment, found the encylical letter an immediate stumbling block to the efforts of those men who are attempting to disseminate birth control information in predominately poor Catholic countries, the countries of South America, the nations of Central America, and the Phillipines. It will make the efforts of these men "very much harder," said Revelle and therefore in these non-industrialized countries where the poor would be less burdened by a smaller family, the Pope's pronouncement does not serve the needs of humanity. This encylical will especially hurt...