Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would have happened if the alarmists' theories on population growth were correct: "I computed last night that if Adam and Eve started this game about 4000 B.C. and had been reasonably fertile, if we had had a 10% increase per generation, we would now have-unless my slide rule slipped-a population as densely packed as this auditorium, leaving out the aisles. It would cover the entire earth, deserts and oceans 15 layers deep. Those who would be allocated the desert would be very much distressed, those allocated to the oceans would...
Only a Beginning. That the faithful Americans seemed eager to do. Cried Henry Wallace: "Any race or nation [like Germany and Japan] which feels that it was meant by destiny to rule the world will inevitably be destroyed . . . The Anglo-Saxons are in serious danger of taking just that step." Optimistically, Wallace added that he hoped "we may all soon meet in Moscow." At a $10-a-plate dinner, backed by a huge "antiwar" mural by Masses & Mainstream Cartoonist William Cropper, stout, bearded Charles Stewart, public-relations man for the Churchman, took up a collection. He raised close...
...Brazilian Senate for more than a year. But to his tiny, yellow stucco ranch house in remote southwest Rio Grande do Sul comes an endless stream of well-wishers, politicos, favor-seekers and givers of advice. Three and a half years after the revolution that broke his 15-year rule, the wily ex-dictator is again the political personage of the hour...
...extra-critical reactions, the TV screens are covered by non-shatterable Plexiglas and the sets encased in steel "tamperproof" cabinets. Carlin's patients like comedy shows. Western films are banned (gunplay overstimulates), but drama shows are all right if they are not too dramatic. Carlin's only rule: his patients must not see "anything depressing or anything to cause excitement." So far, he reports with satisfaction, most TV programs do not violate this rule...
...governor of Minnesota spoke in defense of the "natural rights of man" in the face of threats of "rule by force." He called for a "MacArthur Plan in Asia" to provide at least a billion dollars a year to aid the fight against Communism. He also asked the West to wage "the contest for the minds of men" with a "continuous, widespread, and dramatic program of printed messages from free men to all mankind...