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...fashion the old revolutionary could hardly have intended, the Soviet economy has become today a battlefield of explosive ideas that threaten nearly every precept and practice of Communism in the past generation. Whether conservatively toeing their Marx or boldly advocating such heretical Western-style reforms as the primacy of profits, every important planner, apparatchik and economist in Russia is caught up in Communism's greatest debate since Stalin set backward Russia on its cruel-but successful-forced march into the 20th century industrial world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Borrowing from the Capitalists | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

...dozen major U.S. cities, and even hospitals where doctors are not Lamaze disciples admit to weaving some of his and Dr. Dick Read's teachings into their obstetrics. Just about all big-city hospitals allow the husbands to be with their wives during labor (a Lamaze precept; it helps to relax the mother), and the most diehard anti-naturalists among obstetricians now recognize the value of prenatal education and exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obstetrics: Fewer Drugs for Happier Mothers | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...population boom that inflames "the ills of mankind." Was that a gentle recommendation of birth control? Maybe so, but Psychiatrist Frank Ayd, the father of twelve children, told graduates of Roman Catholic Xavier University in Cincinnati that the choice is between sacrificial abstinence and the "almost Hitlerian precept" of artificial contraception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College: That's Good Advice | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

...bill would prohibit "criminal syndicalism," difined as a doctrine of precept which "advocates, teaches, aids, or abets" the commission of "crime.... violence and force ... as a means of accomplishing a change in agricultural or industral ownership or control . . . . or in affecting any political or social change...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COFO, Miss. Draw Battle Lines | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

Calling this change the "most strongly felt necessity of the time," Wirtz declared that we must seek a legal and moral ethic based "less around right than around the precept of responsibility." He delivered the Law School's annual Holmes Lecture...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Wirtz Proposes Expanded Public Role | 3/26/1964 | See Source »

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