Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...places in the free world where a birth-control congress could count on local interest in the subject, India was No. 1. Speaking in New Delhi last week to the Sixth International Conference on Planned Parenthood, Britain's Sir Julian Huxley warned that India's "failure to solve her population problem will be a political and social disaster," while "success will secure her leadership in Asia and give hope to the world at large." Biologist Huxley called it absurd that in India's second five-year plan $14 million is being spent on malaria control, which "will...
...Huxley was strongly supported by his fellow scientist, Homi J. Bhabha, who heads India's atomic energy projects. Bhabha was not enthusiastic about oral contraceptives, which, he said, cost too much and must be "used systematically and precisely," but "if some substance could be developed that could be mixed in one's daily diet and would have the effect of reducing the chance of conception by about 30%, the problem would be immediately solved." Indian delegates favored voluntary sterilization of all Indian couples with more than three children; the congress itself unanimously advocated sterilization as an effective...
...Church, 46 tribes in the West and Canada, cut off and dry the cactus tops, then eat the "buttons" in nightlong ceremonies to the accompaniment of sacred fire and chanting. A derivative called mescaline, subject of experiment by psychiatric researchers and mystical dabblers, including Aldous (The Doors of Perception) Huxley, produces in devotees a vivid immediacy of experience that the Indians consider far superior to the liturgy the paleface missionaries have to offer...
...Golden (1) 2. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (2) 3. Wedemeyer Reports! (3) 4. The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery ( 4 ) 5. Beloved Infidel, Graham and Frank (5) 6. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (9) 7. The Proud Possessors, Saarinen 8. On My Own, Roosevelt 9. Brave New World Revisited, Huxley (8) 10. Chicago: A Pictorial History, Kogan and Wendt...
...Brave New World Revisited, Huxley...