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...mortality rates down. Thus for a while the population increases. Eventually, however, modernization causes the birth rate to drift downward. Children are not needed to till the land. Parents need not produce a dozen children in the hope that a few will survive to maturity. Modernization also prolongs schooling and postpones the time at which women marry and begin having families, thus shortening their child-bearing years. By this pattern, according to the much discussed theory of "demographic transition," societies in the process of becoming industrialized will move from high birth and death rates to a new equilibrium...
...ultimate caper over network TV, "where it can be viewed by our children," good old Evel, at age 34, vowed to make his flight as planned. "I'll never want to jump so high or so far again," he reflected, "but I'd like to keep jumping till...
...emphatically claimed that "no man or no woman [in this Administration] ever profited at the public expense or the public till." A good many questions may still be asked on this score-on that very day, John Connally, his former Secretary of the Treasury, arraigned in Washington's federal court on charges of bribery and other crimes-but in any case it was largely beside the point. It has long been obvious that the real and profound corruption of the Nixon Administration consisted of the abuse of power and the violation of the Constitution rather than mere greed...
...proud of you. In five and a half years, no man or no woman came into this Administration and left it with more of this world's goods than he came in. No man or no woman ever profited at the public expense, or the public till. That tells something about you. Mistakes, yes. But for personal gain, never. You did what you believed in, sometimes right, sometimes wrong, and I only wish that I were a wealthy man-ha! At the present time I've got to find a way to pay my taxes...
...that "the lives of all German youths belong solely to Adolf Hitler," and undertook to train his charges ("physically, spiritually and morally") to follow the Führer unquestioningly. After the Anschluss (annexation of Austria), Hitler farmed him out to be Gauleiter (district leader) of Vienna, where he remained till war's end. At Nuremberg in 1946, Von Schirach was convicted of complicity in the murder of 50,000 Austrian Jews and spent 20 years at Berlin's Spandau prison...