Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hetherington had run into greater obstacles in the semifinals, against Harvard freshman Anil Nayar. Nayar, who moves about as fast as anything on four legs, blended powerful strokes with deceptive spins to push Hetherington to the limit, but the third-year divinity student had a few too many tricks for the developing freshman and won in five games...
...societies where the mortality is so high that a couple must produce seven to nine sons to insure one surviving, the population growth will not achieve its maximum because the limit of children per family is 12. This also means that contraception would be useless in societies at this level, for mothers would try to have as many children as possible...
...Britain with a rationale for future defense decisions--the principle of economic pragmatism. The White Paper demands that Britain's economic health take precedence over extensive defense programs. In effect, the Ministry of Defense will be guided by the Treasury rather than by the Foreign Office. The government must limit its defense appropriations to 2,000 million pounds per year at 1964 prices. Given this limit, Defense Minister Denis Healy arrived at an "in-between" policy which restricts Britain's military commitments but will maintain her world role...
...Navy Minister Christopher Mayhew defended his resignation in Parliament. The new policy is unrealistic, he claimed, for the 2,000 million pound limit is arbitrary and inadequate for any real defense role. Instead of maintaining an equivocal "in-between" policy, Britain should effectively finance her international police force or else honestly admit that she cannot afford to be a world power. He publicly deplored the inevitable subjection of Britain's forces to American foreign policy leadership...
...students agreed almost unanimously that while on a high, traditions and social customs appear nothing more than a cruel hoax which society has used to limit the true potential of individuals. "Society and its customs have put blinders on us all, and pot takes them off. Instead of thinking the same thoughts in the neat manner that we have grown accustomed to, drugs allow the mind to wander and form free associations that hardly seemed possible without them. From the summit of a high one can see what trivia our anxieties are made...