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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number two position, Tim Gallwey was able to win only one game in losing to Navy's Ed Lowry. Frequently hurrying his shots and dropping many into the tin, Gallwey lacked his usual accuracy and was often put off balance by Lowry's powerful serve...
Underlying the good fellowship that produced agreement in seven weeks of negotiations was the fact that the U.S. and the Soviet Union do not claim any part of Antarctica. Nor do they recognize the often overlapping claims of seven other nations, which are "frozen" for the treaty's duration. Also simplifying demilitarization is the absence of military bases (some 50 scientific outposts hug the coastline) and a population in which penguins enormously outnumber people...
...home with India's teeming, untidy millions. An agnostic who "is not interested in religion," he is leader of one of the world's most religious peoples; he is a socialist with a built-in antipathy to capitalism, but most of his governing colleagues are conservative businessmen; often so irritable that he will explode with anger at a misplaced teacup, Nehru endured more than ten years of imprisonment by the British with equanimity and aplomb...
Behind this screen of mixed religious and political debate, many of the essential economic aspects of the over-population question have been obscured. The countries in which population is increasing most rapidly are often those with the world's lowest standard of living. The improvements of modern medicine have cut the death rate greatly; people live longer, far fewer infants perish, and population growth seems to follow a Malthusian pattern of geometrical progression...
...Story. Half soap opera and half documentary, often absorbing, about a G-man (Jimmy Stewart), his job, his wife and kids...