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Innumerable letters from outraged citizens and hapless victims pour in to British M.P.s demanding protection from the suffocating grip of bureaucracy. Sometimes the press takes up specific cases with a hue and cry, like that of Crichel Down, where a farmer defied the War Department's right in time of peace to hold onto land commandeered in time of war. or pleads for a Mrs. Christos, who went to jail for earning milk money for her children while on the dole (TIME, June 15). But often an M.P. has either too much work or not enough spunk...
...hour of 2 p.m. universal time* approached, Venus looked like a yellow half-moon against the sky background, and Regulus, greenish in hue, was approaching the rim of its disk. The occultation was to start at 2:21. The minutes passed; the star edged closer to the invisible rim of the planet. "No change, no change," chanted Hynek into a tape recorder while an assistant read off the time. "Gosh, there-it seemed to go. It's definitely going, going. It's gone." Eleven minutes and 4.8 seconds later, Regulus reappeared from behind the bright edge of Venus...
This rule gives an unrealistic hue to the Geographic's rose-colored world; the Geographic has not carried an article on Soviet Russia for 15 years. "How can we do it," said Editor Melville Bell Grosvenor, "without making it sound friendly?" The Geographic is trying, now has a Russian article in the works...
...strong, they were couched in his own curious brand of spongy language ("An attempt to explain the situation by the use of rather worn-out words, phrases and slogans is seldom helpful"). If he hoped thereby that Peking would as softly reply, he misjudged his antagonist. Peking began a hue and cry about how "intolerable" Nehru's remarks were, and set in motion the whole dreary ritual of thousands of agitation meetings to condemn Nehru...
...planners first sought to arrest China's inexorable march of population by birth-control propaganda, loudspeaker exhortations and traveling exhibits that featured crudely explicit diagrams and extolled the virtues of contraceptive devices, including something called "Healthy Pleasure Honey." All this hue and cry had no appreciable effect on the birth rate. Soon birth-control advocates found themselves accused of the heinous crime of "neo-Malthusianism," and China's teeming manpower became officially no longer a problem but the nation's greatest asset...