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...states to help the 100 poorest nations increase their own food output. Also certain to be discussed is the critical problem of curtailing births. This is urgently needed to avoid fulfilling the nightmare of Parson Thomas Malthus, the English economist who predicted nearly two centuries ago that population would outrun man's capacity to produce food...
This marked the sixteenth year that the Crimson has outrun the Dartmouth long-distance men. The win improved the Harvard record to 3-5, after the harriers had started the season...
...policies; Britons face the same "choice" they have had since 1964: Heath or Wilson. Similar as these two sly, unadmirable men have always been, they have never seemed so indistinguishable as now--whichever one is elected will be powerless. The problems Britain faces are certainly not insoluble, but they outrun the imagination and power of any British government--and certainly any possible British prime minister...
Boys Town has been making big changes so fast that expenditures now outrun donations. So the twice-yearly mail solicitations that had been suspended after disclosure of the huge endowment have been reinstated. "Boys Town is recovering the sense of mission lost when Father Flanagan died," says Warren Buffett, owner of the Sun papers...
...formally to consider "whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its constitutional power to impeach Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States of America." Given the reaction to the President's transcripts, the committee's hearings on the evidence against Nixon may well be outrun by events. But if Nixon refuses to yield to the rising clamor for his resignation, the months-long constitutional process seemed more likely than ever before to lead to his removal. Even staunch Nixon supporters found it hard to name 34 U.S. Senators who would surely acquit him of impeachment...