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...Instead of an increase of 15 million tons in grain production, they now hope for 10 million-far short of enough to keep pace with India's 5,000,000 yearly births. Power and electricalequipment projects have been dropped. To save foreign exchange, the government has slapped strict import controls on luxury goods. Despite these measures, the huge Rihand hydroelectric dam in Uttar Pradesh stands useless for lack of $8,000,000 to buy electric generators...
...There is an obvious need for a real missile czar who would rule an independent commission with its own budget of the Manhattan Project type. Such a group would control the development of all missiles and would allocate these weapons to the armed services on the basis of a strict formula. This commission would end duplications and rivalries. With the necessary power and financing, it would prove far more efficient than the present system. In long range terms, the board would be better able to control basic research and would be less narrow in its military thinking than the overly...
...Pound went on to deliver it practically verbatim from memory, was interrupted only once, when he was offered-and spurned-a chance to speak from his chair. From the first "crude attempts" at organized social control, he said, the law has gone through four stages of development: 1) the strict law, e.g., Roman law, composed of a set of completely rigid rules, 2) equity and natural law, insisting on reason and morality over mere rules, 3) maturity of law, based on equality of individual rights and recognizing property and contract as fundamental ideas, and 4) socialization of law, transferring...
Common but Uncommon. "In successive stages of development of the legal order each later stage builds upon the preceding stage. To the principle of certainty established by the strict law the stage of equity and natural law adds the upholding of morals; the maturity of law adds to both the promoting and maintaining of the demands and expectations of the individual human being; and to all this the socialization of law is adding the promoting and maintaining of the expectations common to all men in a world where we must live and move and have our being in cooperation with...
...satisfied. Last week it announced that some 12,000 Negro garment workers in the for-whites-only classification will "stay away from their jobs" (Negroes are not allowed to "strike" in South Africa) to drive home a hard fact seldom faced by Strydom's fanatics: a strict application of apartheid would paralyze South Africa's economy...