Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though they may respect his abilities, State Department officials find un settling the idea of talkative Hubert becoming a foreign policy force. In deed, the story making the rounds of the department is that Secretary Dean Rusk wrote a letter congratulating Humphrey on his election, but suggesting that he limit his foreign policy activities to ribbon-snipping ceremonies and the like; an aide persuaded Rusk to delete the suggestion from the letter and send a more tactful oral message...
...like to implement. He thinks Samuel Beckett, for example, is a great comic playwright who is too often treated solemnly and reverentially. "Endgame" he says, "is a fall-down laugh riot," and he would like to prove it. But if he is ambitious, he also has a sense of limit. "The theater properly belongs to the playwright," he says. "A good theatrical director is one who gives the playwright what he deserves. In fact, I get a little edgy at theatrical directors being too celebrated, and I hope it stops with me soon." He is unlikely to get that wish...
...nothing yet. Fremlin has sturdy faith that man's ingenuity will be equal to his ever-growing need for food. But this is just the trouble. Eventually, he says, the earth will be so packed with human bodies that the heat they give off will put a final limit on their increase...
This ultimate limit will be reached in less than 1,000 years, says Dr. Fremlin, whose tongue is only halfway in his cheek. He sees no obstacle to man's attainment of a dreadful level of existence where even his movements will be rationed because motion generates heat. "We are free to choose," he says, "at what population density we want to call a halt, somewhere between the .000,006 people per square meter of the present and the 120 per square meter of the heat limit. If we do not choose, we shall eventually reach that limit...
...microwave relays to bring in Los Angeles, 800 miles away. Cable TV's profitability also upsets the telephone companies, which rent the poles for CATV cables at modest costs. The onetime $1.50-$2 charge per pole has risen to $3-$5. Southern Bell recently announced that it would limit new CATV service, but in some instances is willing to lease its own equipment for CATV...