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Votes & Oil. As in Teheran, elections were going on ail over Iran. Though crude and undemocratic by Western standards, the balloting process fits the pattern for Iran, which is backward, deeply infiltrated by a Communist underground and inexperienced at combating the enemies of democracy with democratic methods. The current elections were efficient and peaceful by contrast; in Mohammed Mossadegh's 1952 elections, the balloting lasted five months and at least 50 were killed...
...Ancient Pattern. Can man, who dominates other life, do nothing to keep his species in equilibrium with the earth? With great clarity, Dr. Brown describes the interrelated factors that have affected populations in the past. It is not a happy picture. Except for brief "Golden Age" respites, man has suffered biologically, like any other animal. His women have borne so many children that not all could be fed. They have died in infancy, or lived brief, sickly, hungry lives. Each period of abundance has brought a jump in population, followed by famine and pestilence...
This is still the pattern, says Brown, for that part of the human race which is still in the agricultural stage. Only the industrial one-third of the world's population escapes the Malthusian trap. Dr. Brown is not sure that it will escape for long...
...growth of suburbia has changed the pattern of U.S. retail trade so much that only a relatively few new stores have gone up in the center of big cities in recent years. Even the old, established stores are feeling the competition from the suburbs. In Boston, retail trade increased 275% faster in the suburbs than in the city in the last two decades, while in Detroit, the J. L. Hudson Co. expects to lose fully 15% of its business to its new store in its suburban shopping center. To combat such losses, downtown businessmen are offering special lures to shoppers...
...shifting pattern of trade has brought new problems to big cities, not only for businessmen but for city officials. As trade suffers, the city becomes relatively more expensive to run efficiently. New York City alone has lost 500,000 upper-and middle-income-bracket families to the suburbs since 1943; those who remain are poorer, less able to pay taxes for expensive city services. Lower tax returns, in turn, mean more crowding and more slums. Says Detroit City Planner Paul Reid: "Newcomers, for the most part, are in the lower economic level. As they settle in the city, others...