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...convoluted purpose. Drawn from a 1953 series of radio broadcasts from Rome in mono sound that ranges from only dim to adequate, this is a Ring that every Wagnerian will at least want to hear, and probably own as a low-priced but high-keyed contrast to excellent latter-day sets by Solti and Karajan...
Viewing Mao as a latter-day Monkey may be the only way to make sense out of the Cultural Revolution. Six years after it began, five years after it peaked, the largest civil disorder of modern times remains largely mysterious. Yet, amazingly, there was a continuous stream of information flowing out of China during those years of turmoil. From regional radio broadcasts, newspaper stories, wall posters, speeches, government documents, refugee tales and many other sources came a provocative mixture of facts, accusations, propaganda, rumors and half-truths. As a correspondent stationed in Hong Kong (originally for TIME, later...
Last July, when Joseph Fielding Smith died at the age of 95, command of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints passed to a relative youngster. The new president, Harold Bingham Lee, was only 73-the youngest man to assume the mantle of "prophet, seer and revelator" for the Mormons since 1918. (Smith took office at 93.) Since his accession, both outsiders and members have wondered just how much innovation Harold Lee would bring to the rich, rapidly growing but still monolithic Mormon Church...
GROWTH AND EVANGELISM. With 16,000 young missionaries at work in the U.S. and abroad, the Church of Latter-day Saints remains one of the most aggressively evangelistic in the world. All young men and women are expected to put in two years as missionaries, mostly at their own expense-a requirement that has paid off handsomely. The church has grown by 50% in the U.S. over the past twelve years to a total of 2,000,000 members, and by 250% outside the U.S., bringing its foreign membership to 1,000,000. Missions have been especially successful in Mexico...
Meadows is no latter-day Malthus prophesying doom on the basis of intuition; instead he has produced the first vision of the apocalypse ever prepared by computer. His team built a computer model of the world, fed the machine masses of data on population and industrial growth rates, farm yields and the like, and constructed "feedback loops" to gauge the effects of changes in one variable, like food production, on another, like birth rates. In restrained, nonhysterical, at times almost apologetic language, the team insists that unchecked growth can have only one outcome: "A rather sudden and uncontrollable decline...