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...perhaps a 50-seat majority. They feared that Labor supporters might be so mesmerized by the poll predictions that they would stay away from the polls in large numbers out of sheer apathy. If that happened, the Tories might indeed turn the tide in marginal districts and, at least, avert a Labor landslide. By any pollster's calculations, however, victory seemed beyond the Tories' reach...
...fiscal tools," called for a "modest" tax hike "to cool down the economy." Of eleven experts who testified before a subcommittee of the Senate-House Joint Economic Committee, three urged a cutback in Government spending and eight favored increased taxes, but all wanted some form of fiscal restraint to avert inflation. "Without an increase soon," said Yale's conservative Henry C. Wallich, "we will run into very serious problems...
Supporters this year should learn from the mistakes of the 1965 attempt. Last year the citizens' committee tried so hard to avert religious controversy that the public remained apathetic, and the legislators were allowed to be swayed by a handful of religious reactionaries and an unjustified fear of condemnation by the Church. If this year's proponents argue just as intelligently and a little more strenuously, they may succeed at last. The passage of the amendment would help alleviate a distressing social condition. And it would prove that Massachusetts legislators are not so benighted as most people think...
...tens of millions will starve." But it is bad enough. The present shortage began after lack of rain ruined many of India's crops, and could develop into a crisis if anything happens to the winter harvest. In that case, even foreign aid might not be able to avert widespread famine, since India's overburdened ports and railways would probably be unable to distribute food fast enough throughout the country. What would then be needed would be a massive grain airlift to drop food into the remote needy areas...
...Meanwhile the U.S. will avert a crisis in doctor supply only by continued foreign aid: 15,500 graduates of foreign schools (mainly in the Philippines, India and Pakistan) have acquired U.S. medical licenses in the last 15 years. Countless U.S. hospitals are utterly dependent on 11,000 interns and residents from foreign schools...