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...Species? Grandson Darwin shakes his grey head over this hope. Birth control, he says, is possible biologically but not sociologically. In accordance with a kind of sociological Gresham's Law,* the people who restrain their birth rate will be supplanted by those who do not. Backward but ambitious races are sure to defy the birth rules and increase deliberately at the cost of their prosperous, birth-restraining neighbors...
Indeed, as Napoleon's little squadron sails northward to France through the British blockade, Herbert can hardly restrain a huzzah. Miraculous! he chortles. "The gods were on Napoleon's side." However, says Herbert, the decision to escape was by no means a pleasant one for Napoleon. The conqueror of Europe, Herbert assures his readers, wanted nothing but to make Elba "an island Athens," and "die peaceful and happy" there. "The charge is not that one man, through wild ambition, would not accept defeat. It is that the many, having no magnanimity, were unfit for victory." The book ends...
Some day, however, says Capp, he will be unable to restrain himself from giving TIME (or LIME, whose slogan is, "If you can't read it-eat it!") the full treatment which is customary in his comic strip, Li'l Abner. Says he: "I'm surprised I haven't done a thorough job on it before, because it's a setup the whole country is familiar with." Then he adds with a thoughtful air: "I will inevitably do a complete massacre. The only way I can do a thorough job is with the gloves...
...nine months, a hundred witnesses appeared before the jurors; they left behind a shocking impression of Red infiltration at the U.N.'s high levels. But Washington, through the Justice and State Departments, tried to sidetrack and block the inquiry. In a thunderous presentment, shaking off all attempts to restrain it, the grand jury made public its findings. Main points...
...years of legal skirmishing, the Government's antitrust suit against the Du Ponts was finally under way. In his opening statement, U.S. Attorney Willis L. Hotchkiss outlined the charge: 117 members of the Du Pont family-59 of them minors aged four to 20-had conspired to restrain trade through a $5 billion empire composed of the Du Pont chemical company, General Motors and U.S. Rubber. Hotchkiss wanted the court to force the Du Fonts to sell their chemical company's 23% common-stock interest in G.M. (now worth $1.3 billion) and the 18% interest in U.S. Rubber...