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...gratified at your extensive review of my autobiography [Dec. 24]. In my book, 1 stated my highly critical views of the manner in which governments and religion have dealt with overpopulation. In conclusion, I wrote: "In all likelihood, modern civilization will solve [these problems] as it is wont to do: by a reductio ad absurdiun, such as war; or by technological-administrative interventions, such as forced migration, compulsory sterilization, and stealthy pills, which invariably encroach on human dignity and freedom and destroy the few good and beautiful things that have not yet vanished in the rummage sale of ancient cultures...
Looking for a Chance. The likelihood is that Lleras Restrepo will win the presidency against a divided opposition next May. He might even be able to do something for Colombia-if he gets the chance. Though he has none of the personal appeal of Lleras Camargo, he is a respected economist and former Finance Minister who knows the hard things he must do to reduce Colombia's spiraling cost of living (up 64% in three years) and soaring foreign debt (up 100%, to $750 million...
...likelihood of our being surprised this year by an unusually large spate of applications is small," Glimp said...
...ascent in February 1961, still has plenty of go. In a report to the Treasury last week, members of a 25-man advisory panel of private economists, led by the University of California's Seymour Harris, predicted unanimously that the expansion would continue through 1966, though in all likelihood at a slightly slower pace than this year's. The panel foresees a further $40 billion rise in the G.N.P. to at least $710 billion by the end of next year...
Some time late next summer, then, the several hundred men who will be delegates to the Democratic state convention will in all likelihood choose the next Governor of New York. A much smaller group of men will determine whom the delegation will choose...