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THE
70's - Decade of
Utopia?
What a decade we have come
through! More important, we ask,
WHAT KJND
of decade are we now
entering?
Things will happcn the world little
suspects. You would never have ex–
pected, in your wildest dreams ten years
ago, what actually has happcned since
1960! Little do you realize what next
wi/l
happen!
Would you have cxpected, in 1960,
that the total fund of thc world's
knowledge would have DOUBLED within
ten short years? It did! Particular!y in
the ficlds of sciencc, technology, medi–
cine, has knowledge increased enor–
mously. But the world's TROUI.ILES also
doubled in that decade!
The oational commitment of Presi–
dent Kennedy to land meo on the moon
and briog them safely back to earth be–
fore the decade's end, faotastíc and im–
possible though it seemed, actually was
accomplished! The development and
improvement of the computcr duríng
the decade was almost beyond belíef.
But troubles escalated also, and wíth
íncreasing momentum. Thc populatíon
explosion now looms as a frightening
nightmare - now threatening the very
survival of humanity.
If
otber modero
means of mass destruction do not blast
all human life off this planet sooner,
authorities say the population explosion
u·ill
put an end to civilization in the not–
too-distant future. Unless, that is, some–
thing happens to prevent it.
The 60's brought the evils of POLLU·
TJON to a major threat. Pollution of the
air- pollution of our water in streams,
lakes, and even the seas - pollution of
earth's soil - even the rising pollution
of garbage and waste envisions a future
of humanity wading knee-decp in gar–
bage wbile we watch astronauts going to
and from thc moon, Mars and Venus.
Ncw militant movements sprang up,
filling the earth with race hatreds, riots,
violence. The 60's brought thc hippies
and a rebel lion against society that
is spreading like wildfire. Morals, under
tbe catchphrase "the New Morality,"
have hit a toboggan-slide into the ccss–
pool. Campus revolt has escalated into
violence on hundreds of campuses in
more than twcnty nations. Thc marriagc
institution is threatened, family life is
being broken up at a constantly increas–
ing rate. The divorce rate has risen to
alarrning proportioos. Crime increases
more rapidly each ycar. So do mental
cases. Humanity, at ever-incrcasing mo–
mentum - is rapidly dcgenerating
morally, mcntally, spiritually.
And therc has bcen the nightmare of
an entire decade of Vietnam
w
AR!
The trend toward thc decline and
disintegration of modero civilization
accelerates as we entcr the decade of
the 70's!
But a heedless world refuses to look
to the warning signals.
Notwithstanding, while the world
was doubling its problems and troubles
in this decade,
The
PL.AJN TRUTH was
multiplying its resources and powers for
good TEN TIMES in ten years.
In January, 1960, the circulation of
The
PLAJN TRUTH was about 210,000
copies. Today it is more than 2,100,000
copies -- more than TEN TIMES the cir–
culation ten years ago.
The
PLAJN TRUTH was a 32-page
two-color magazine in January, 1960.
That meant pictures werc black and
white, except for an extra color back–
ground for some of them. Today it is a
52-page FULL-color magazine of supcrb
quality.
Ten years ago, there were only
fo111'
lltliiJeJ
listcd on its staff. They were
mine, as Editor, Garner Ted Armstrong
as Executive Edjtor, Hen11an
L.
Hoeh as
Managing Editor, and Roderick
C.
Me–
redith as Associate Editor. Although
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In This lssue:
What our Readers
Soy
. . . . . . .
lnside Front Cover
Personal from the Editor
....
"Act
Now on Po/lution
-
Don't Just Talk''
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3
Ambassador's Answer
To
Mind Pollution
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17
Europe's Chant
Grows Louder
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23
Food Additives
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Are They
Real/y Safe?
29
Rad~
Log .
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34
What You Should Know
About
Children's Toys
37
TV
Log
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40
Evolution
...
Mysterious
New
Re/igion! ..........
43
Advonce News Reports
Come A/ive
Today
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48
OUR COVER
Our life-sustaining EARTH is in
trouble. Pollution is reaching epi–
demic proportions- disrupting the
delicate ecological balance of land,
air and water, and threatening thc
very existence of life on this planeL.
Photos' H. Armstrone
Roberts,
Ambcssodof
College, Koshollek - Milwauk" Journa 1