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Three Faculty members have been appointed to an informal panel of 27 intellectuals to serve as "idea men" for President Johnson. They are Paul A. Freund, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, and David Reisman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences...
...Indian government is making some progress in its industrial economy, Galbraith said, but progress in agriculture is soely lacking...
...However, Galbraith said that Indian population control is still in the area of oratory," and that "for all practical purposes not much is being done...
...Galbraith cited one economic planner's idea for controlling the population: the Indian government would buy 100 heliocopters which would drop over every rural village a packet containing male contraceptives and notices announcing that every family with more than two children would be liable to a 50 ruble fine and five years in jail...
...Galbraith said that his feeling was for a more libertarian method, but that he "would not like to see anything less effective." For India to throw the population issue over to the U.S., he said, "is the most shocking form of escapism...