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...contraception is, in effect, an ironical move to weaken further a basic principle of the Christian faith: that every human life has worth. It has always been the tendency (whether sound or unsound) to value items in proportion to their multiplicity or scarcity-value increasing with the rarity of the object and decreasing with its abundance. Thus the explosion of the population has tended to cheapen human life in the eyes of many. It becomes increasingly difficult to say "thou" to a mass of flesh that bumps and pushes and encroaches more and more on free space, sacred privacy...
...will have to pay dearly. If Moscow chooses muscle, it will not only antagonize most of the non-Communist world but will also alienate many Communist countries and national parties. If it permits Dubček to proceed, his sweeping reforms are bound to spread elsewhere and further weaken Russia's hold over its Communist neighbors. The Kremlin is caught in an enormous dilemma and. no matter what it does, the shape and strength of what used to be called the Communist bloc are bound to change drastically...
...whittling of empire or sag in sterling seems able to weaken the national virus that makes Britons crave distant and sometimes eccentric adventure. Following a long line from Captain Bligh to Sir Francis Chichester, countless modern Englishmen still seek out high mountains or arctic wastes, race over deserts, relentlessly push through tropical jungles. The latest of that intrepid breed-and Britain's new nautical hero -tottered ashore at Portsmouth last week from the tubby 36-ft. yawl in which he had circled the globe alone. Seagoing Greengrocer Alec Rose, 59, declared: "This bug gets into one's blood...
...have used so light a revolver as a .22. Many found it difficult to believe that the assassinations of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were unrelated. Some blamed right-wing extremists; others concluded that all three slayings were part of a Communist plot to divide and weaken...
...artistic vogues. Yet for Vlaminck, by virtue of his youth, temperament and training-or rather, lack of it-it was the right movement at the right time. He transmuted its gaudy splendors into rockhard canvases that can be looked at again and again without their seeming to fade or weaken. By the age of 30, he had attained heights he never regained in a long lifetime of painting. He also recorded, for later generations, the candor and gaiety of a placid era and countryside that were soon to be buried under the grimy onrush of history...