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...some way can be found to feed the onrushing millions, they may still face a psychic fate similar to the one that befell Dr. John Calhoun's white mice. A psychologist at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, D.C., Calhoun started with eight mice in an null cage; within a little more than two years, they had multiplied to 2,200, but they were hardly alive-mere "passive blobs of protoplasm, frozen in a childlike trance." Summing up the sentiments of many population experts, Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich (who has had himself sterilized) concludes that...
...students, but public firmness bordering on hostility to their government. For the benefit of the world at large, Chou turned on the chill. He reeled off China's basic positions: that its sovereignty over Taiwan must be recognized, that the U.S. treaty with the Nationalists is "illegal, null and void," that Peking alone must represent China in the United Nations, that the U.S. must withdraw not only from the "dirty war" in Viet Nam but "also from the whole of Indochina...
...field concluded that 40 federal departments and agencies, regulating everything from housing to broadcasting, have been delinquent in pressing for an end to racial exclusion. So lackadaisical has been enforcement that such landmark bills as the Fair Housing Law of 1968 and the 1964 Civil Rights Act are practically null in some instances. The commission leveled particularly stiff criticism at agencies that regulate some of the country's largest industries, including the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission...
Plimpton's books are undeniably about sports. Paper Lion, the product of his month in training camp with the Detroit Lions, tells more null the inner world of pro football than any other book ever written. The Bogey Man, similarly, may be the most complete explanation of that infuriating game called golf. Out of My League is the detailed account of only one afternoon Plimpton spent in Yankee Stadium, but it nonetheless offers a keen insight into the mechanics and mystique of baseball. To say merely that the books are about sports, however, is to tell the plot without...
...quite differently. He initiated a new charge against Callas of insulting a public official and even escalated the affair by accusing Tantini and Ballarini of bearing false witness and failing to report a misdemeanor. All that happened back in 1952. Last week, when an examining magistrate declared the case null and void because the statute of limitations had run out, not one "Che hello!" of triumph issued from the Aegean hideaway where Callas is vacationing with Film Maker Pier Paolo Pasolini...