Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stevens controversy appears to be one of the cheapest frame-ups since Martin Dies was victimized by the fellow-traveling elements of the Roosevelt regime. I, a Democrat, should like to register my opinions . . . Private Schine was, at the time of his induction, just within the 26-year-old limit, and the kind of controversial public figure the Army does not like to han dle. Did his draft number just pop up, accidental-like? Or, as his friends accuse and enemies smirk, as everyone believes, was it drawn? Why wasn't he given a special com mission and/or...
...Observer and party members who "retail gossip about confidential proceedings." The Observer quickly replied that "it is at party meetings that policy questions are thrashed out. Should the public be denied all information about these debates, which are clearly of public interest? There is a tendency nowadays to limit the activities of reporters ... to receiving official handouts." The Observer was immediately joined by the Times. "It is no function of newspapers," thundered the Times, "to keep politicians' secrets for them...
...H.A.A., one plan has recommended ordering and distributing tickets through the Houses, with the House athletic secretary doing the leg work between the two distributors. Although more convenient for students, this plan would not solve the problem of possible loss and red-tape. More important, it would limit the spectator to sitting only with men from his own House. Now this might be the unifying experience sought since the beginning of the House system, but it is unpleasantly confining...
Many other countries, says Brown, are far along the road to teeming, struggling starvation. Unless something changes soon, says Brown, a large part of the world will reach the ultimate population limit that can be supported non-industrially. When each country gets there, it will be too harassed to better its situation...
...does not believe, however, that the final reckoning will come because of material factors. He concedes that there is some limit, far in the future, to the number of humans that the earth can support, but many bugbears dear to the neo-Mathusians he dismisses as of little moment. Industrial man will need, and can get, ever-increasing supplies of energy. Coal and oil may burn out in a relatively short time, but sunlight and atomic energy can take their place. He points out that one ton of ordinary granite, from which the continents are largely made, contains as much...