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...numbers indefinitely without taking thought of how our children and our children's children are to live." More than 40% of recorded births are to parents who already have three children (compared to 21% in the U.S.), so it is these parents whose "improvident maternity" worries the census taker. To Gopalaswami the answer is obvious: contraception, for which the Indian government has already set aside a sum of 6,500,-ooo rupees ($1,365,000) in research money. "We must consider it as a fortunate circumstance," said Gopalaswami, "that the religious faith of most of our people...
...mescaline taker keeps his eyes closed, he sees riotously colorful "mosaics, networks, flowing arabesques, interlaced spirals, wonderful tapestries . . . great butterflies gently moving their wings, fields of glittering jewels . . . soaring architecture . . . and finally human figures and fully formed scenes where coherent histories are enacted...
...great gamble of oil, one of the world's biggest winners is a chance-taker named Alfred Jacobsen. His rule for success is simple: "If you don't want to take risks, you can't make money. If you haven't the courage to lose, stay...
...large, enthusiastic audiences, observed a ticket-taker, are "mostly men, ten, to one. maybe. And I guess there's a few old ladies who come to get shocked." What the audience sees is a turgid little melodrama about a blonde, paranoiac babysitter. Dripping with frilly negligee, she lures Airline Pilot Richard Widmark to her charge's apartment. When interruptions prevent her making love to him, she tries to murder the freckle-faced moppet she is supposed to be taking care...
...Message Taker: In New Jersey, the Bell Telephone Co. demonstrated two machines to answer the telephone when no one is home. One machine has a permanent recording cylinder which takes up to 20 messages, can be wiped clean and used again. The other takes up to 125 messages but requires record changes. Both instruct callers to do such things as "call back this afternoon." Charge per month: $12.50 each, plus a $15 installment...