Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economists and demographers is that the population explosion should be checked by making birth control devices and counseling more widely available, particularly to poor people. Nonsense, says a scientist writing in the British journal, New Society. According to Peter J. Smith, a lecturer in geophysics at the University of Liverpool, the problem - at least in the U.S. -is not lack of birth control but excess desire for children...
Children's Books-Ages 7 to 14 GOODBYE, DOVE SQUARE, by Janet Mc-Neill (Little, Brown; $4.50); TROUBLE IN THE JUNGLE, by John Rowe Townsend (Lippincott; $3.75); THE LIVERPOOL CATS, by Sylvia Sherry (Lippincott; $3.95). Three fine books about domestic adventures-including murder-set in the slums of English cities. The writing is clear and fast paced, without ever talking down to the reader. Americans may be stumped by an occasional term-perhaps not by "tea" for supper, or "chips" for French fries, but certainly by "scuffers" for cops...
...they may not perform abortions. The effect of the McLaren ukase is to send most Birmingham women seeking abortions to London if they can afford that or, if they cannot, to the local back-street abortionist. Much the same thing is happening in Liverpool, England's third-largest city, which has a 40% Roman Catholic population and many anti-abortion doctors...
...Pepperlander manages to escape. White-mustachioed Old Fred climbs into the Yellow submarine (which is inexplicably parked on the summit of an Aztec pyramid) and takes off to bring somebody-anybody-to help. He ends up in Liverpool and finds the Beatles. After a voyage through some indeterminate fantasy land of Outer Space or Sea Bottom, inhabited by terrors, demons and malevolent monsters, they make it back to Pepperland and vanquish the Meanies with Beatlemusic and LOVE...
...mass audience with the intensity of an avant-garde cult. "I feel like I'm in a cathedral," said one awed fan at a performance. The last two of their four LPs have been top-ten bestsellers, and their concert tours sell out from London to Liverpool...