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¶ The world's undirected population explosion, concentrated among have-not peoples, hardly favors the groups "better fitted to direct man's future biological and cultural development," said Nobel Prizewinner George W. Beadle (TiME, July 14) at a Washington forum. Sure that men now have the skill if...
Major U.S. collecting began with a rush in the 1890s, when a handful of new U.S. millionaires decided, almost as one, to plunge into the art market. They had little experience, but in a time before income taxes, huge spendable resources. They bought widely, and sometimes competitively with one another...
In Nehru's opinion, the "major division of the world today" is that between the developed and the underdeveloped communities, and the fact is that, comparatively, the poorer nations are getting poorer, and the gap between have and have-not is widening. "Whether you talk of a Communist state...
Postulating a grey-as-ashes England where upper-class loss has not meant lower-class gain, Playwright Osborne writes of a young intellectual who looks back because he has no incentive to look ahead, and looks back in anger because he has no brighter past than future. Exulting in his...
"But this is madness-this policy of trying to preserve peace by a preponderance of terror. And what is it going to do to mankind in the process-bone cancer, deformed children, sterility?" Instead, Stevenson said, the way to peace lies amid the faith, confidence and rising standards of living...