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Piece by piece, Nixon's position of power began to crumble. Last October after Nixon fired his special prosecutor, Archibald Cox '34, cries from Congress and from the streets demanded Nixon's impeachment. Impeachment seemed distant, almost improbable, in October, but under the weight of public outrage the House Judiciary Committee took up the future of Richard Nixon...
...council. For one thing, two-fifths of the Evangelicals who came to Lausanne belong to churches that are members of the World Council. Still, Graham warned that if the Geneva liberals did not "carefully and prayerfully" heed the message of Lausanne, a rival group is a "possibility in the distant future...
...those who recall that epoch from the far side of the generation gap. To them, the '50s have a unique significance, a time when history seemed very close and life was lived more intensely. For those too young to remember 1950-1960, the time is suffused with a distant romance-as all things are when they exist beyond memory. Those who came of age in the '50s know better. To them the '50s were the embodiment of Dickens' phrase: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
...possibly grow indifferent to the problems confronting America today then the next portion of The Human Prospect will probably awaken those numb spirits. Here, Heilbroner charts the three major challenges of the not-too-distant future: overpopulation, impending nuclear holocaust, and environmental destruction. Perhaps none of these issues will scare anybody, but the supportive evidence should. Overpopultion in developing countries seems most assuredly to be heading toward a grim Malthusian reckoning: death from starvation and malnutrition will be the only checks on these peoples' birth rates. In those countries which are not outright dictatorships, only a kind of militaristic socialism...
...statutes on humane treatment. But odds are that canine affairs will now receive closer attention. Last April a poll by Nation's Cities magazine showed 60.6% of U.S. mayors reporting that animal problems lead the list of urban complaints-with traffic in second place and crime in a distant eighth...