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That fact alone might suggest that the predictions of a population doomsday, at least as far as the U.S. is concerned, have been exaggerated. It should be added, though, that the children of the post-World War II baby boom are now getting married, and even if the birth rate dropped to 2.1 immediately, it would take two generations for the American population to level off at about...
...compete strongly in world markets. Rich investments in technology and worker training have made the value of output per man-hour in the U.S. the world's highest. Historically, that value has risen at a rate of about 3% a year. In the past four years, however, the annual increase has averaged only 1.7%, substantially less than that of Japan and major West European nations. Since wages have risen much faster, the cost of manufactured goods has climbed -adding to inflation. With the U.S. productivity performance since 1966 the worst it has been in the post-World...
Still, as Kalb and Abel also demonstrate, the war that no President wanted might have been averted. There were moments in all the post-World War II Administrations when some official wisdom might have saved Lyndon Johnson -not to mention the U.S. and Vietnamese peoples-from the results of the decision to intervene with combat divisions...
...history," he said recently. "A new journal is in a better position to meet the needs of the '70's." As Huntington sees it, a major foreign policy journal has been spawned in the aftermath of every great war in this century: Foreign Affairs is a reaction to post-World War I isolationism, World Politics, a more academic publication dealing with the cold war, founded in the late '40's, and Foreign Policy, which explores the alternatives open to post-Vietnam America...
...part of the post-World War II drive for freer trade, the U.S. tariff on cast-resin billiard balls was progressively reduced from 50% in 1947 to 20% in 1963. Now the Belgian billiard-ball hustlers fear that they may be snookered out of their prime market. Albany Billiard Ball Co. of Albany, N.Y., the only U.S. maker of cast-resin billiard balls, claims that it has been knocked into a side pocket by the imports. The company once dominated the U.S. market, but currently has only one-third of it. So Albany Billiard Ball is campaigning to kick...