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...cited Winston Churchill, who himself has steadfastly refused a peerage on the ground that "it is a terrible thing for a father to doom his son to political extinction." Implacably, Lord Hastings, whose title dates back to 1290, replied: "You cannot make a peerage a convertible commodity," and the bill was rejected...
...considered view of the grave and learned man who wrote those words that is precisely what is happening to the U.S. John Courtney Murray sees his native America entering a new era of post-modern man" in a sorry state of ideological disarray that, unless repaired must doom the best political skill and dedication. His lucid, well-modulated concern for the U.S. has long ago earned him eminence among the cognoscenti with time for learned journals and debate Now in his first book, We Hold These Truths (Sheed & Ward; $5), he is entermg a new, broader area of influence...
...prophets of doom ignored the fact that Bruce Munro is one of the best coaches, in any sport, in the entire Ivy League. Munro kept quiet about his team's chanced before the season began, but it was clear that he was not doing to relinquish his twice-won Ivy title without a struggle...
...your review of The Alamo: after a fairly steady diet of doom, declining prestige and farm income, dull candidates, duller debates, and disunited nations, may I offer my heartfelt thanks for the first genuine laugh in months...
Ever since the time of Malthus (1766-1834), prophets of doom have warned that if the human race does not stop reproducing so fast it will eventually outbreed its available food supply. But whenever the pessimists of the plundered-planet school have set a date for this unhappy event, they were proved to be wrong. In advanced countries the technology of food production has kept well ahead of population growth (TIME, Nov. 8, 1948). The U.S., with its burdensome crop surplus, is farther from starvation than ever before, and other countries are in the same condition. Only technologically backward countries...