Word: extinctionism
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Died. Charles Haskins Townsend, 84, famed zoologist and arctichthyologist, for 35 years director of the New York Aquarium; in Miami, Fla. He was credited with having saved three varieties of rare "critters" (his invariable term) from extinction: the giant Galapagos tortoise, the Alaskan reindeer, the fur seal.
Latest ratifier is Columbia University's Henry Steele Commager (The Growth of the American Republic, The Heritage of America), whose Majority Rule and Minority Rights contains a surprising reservation (about the U.S. Supreme Court), a surprising admiration (for Congress). Professor Commager is an unabashed small-"d" democrat who believes...
Last week the American Jewish Congress asked the United Nations to do what could be done to save 5,000,000 Jews in Europe from extermination this year. Anyone who thought that the Congress exaggerated the danger had only to read Adolf Hitler's prophecy to Nazi Party members...
> Hitler cannot soon replace his losses in Egypt and Libya; he may not even try. Of 500 tanks on the Alamein front, Rommel had probably rescued fewer than 50. His casualties already exceeded 75,000 men and the whole Afrika Korps faced extinction.
By the general tone of the official statements, however, smaller colleges are in danger of complete extinction, and many of the presidents of these schools are protesting over the wording of the plan.