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Your deeply moving essay on "that population explosion" leaves the frightening and revolting conclusion that cannibalism is the ultimate solution. The only point left in doubt is the date. The U.N. Department of Economics and Social Affairs' report, quoted in your article, indicates that the problem is not only one of food but also of space. Even if we could feed countless billions, where will they live? No matter how staggering and unbelievable such a fact may be, it is only too, too logical and inexorable...
Pinochle Player. The problem was a nasty one for Macleod. Should he give in to the African members' boycott, the Asian and European delegates would consider it the beginning of a cave-in before an African show of force. Macleod's solution: Koinange and other delegation advisers would not sit in on the conference but could be admitted to the committee rooms of each delegation. It satisfied no one. Thurgood Marshall fumed: "What can I do in some separate room, play pinochle? If I'm not in the conference room, I can't see the fast...
...hands from Tory Marples to the Fabian Socialist intellectuals agree, Britain's prime social problem is not too many people but too many people in the wrong places. Like the U.S. itself, but more acutely, Britain in 1960 is a victim of "urban sprawl," the planless mushrooming of cities. Says Oxford Economist Colin Clark: "There is an area in central England, an oblong, coffin-shaped area, which includes more and more of our population ... If things go on as they are, we shall soon all be in the coffin...
...ceiling on all Government bonds of five years or longer. Last year President Eisenhower asked Congress to remove the limitation, imposed in 1918, and Congress turned him down. Last week Ike asked again, and once more a Democratic Congress seems determined to make political capital out of an economic problem...
...problem is getting worse with each passing month. It is true, as some Congressmen say, that no long-term debt comes due for ten months. But there will be almost $80 billion in short-and medium-term borrowing. By November of 1961, so much debt will drop down into the one-year-and-under category that the figure will top $92 billion, up from $81 billion in December 1959, in itself equal to the alltime record. The Government's only recourse will be more short-term financing, probably at higher rates...