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Even with inspection, disarmament would be risky. According to President Kennedy's scientific adviser, Jerome B. Wiesner, the best that can be achieved is a combination of inspection techniques that would produce an "adequate likelihood" of detecting violations. For example, even if ironclad controls were accepted by each nation - inspection of such things as plant output records, manpower, ore supply and electricity consumption - could anyone be sure a would-be cheater had not hidden a stockpile of undeclared H-bombs? Even with all this data, experts estimate they might miscalculate a nation's supply to the extent...
...likelihood, many of the threatened state legislatures will make their representation more equal without the Federal courts' having to spell out new apportionment plans for them. This is fortunate, for if the courts can use the injunction without getting involved in reapportionment schemes, they will have a better chance to keep clear of the political thickets which worry Frankfurter...
...many forces far beyond the local level. "However strongly we may believe that public education in America is still entirely a local matter," says Pres ident John H. Fischer of Columbia Uni versity's Teachers College, "the facts will not support our faith. Nor is there any likelihood that a nation whose regional differences diminish every year can meet its educational problems by ignoring com mon national needs." Statewide needs already take precedence over local option - from the dissolution of inefficient school districts to the statewide exams of the New York Board of Regents...
Last week, as Communist troops remained on the offensive in South Viet Nam and as Russian jets buzzed Allied planes in the Berlin air corridor, there seemed little likelihood that international talks could lead to anything beyond more talks...
...there a likelihood of such wars recurring? Yes, there is. Are uprisings of this kind likely to recur? Yes, they are. Is there the likelihood of conditions in other countries reaching the point where the cup of the popular patience overflows and they take to arms? Yes, there is such a likelihood...