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...book The Population Bomb, and the Club of Rome, in The Limits to Growth (1972), commanded wide attention with their predictions that the world faces catastrophe unless both economic and population growth is slowed. Such Jeremiahs have been roundly challenged, most recently by British Economist Wilfred Beckerman, whose book, In Defence of Economic Growth, argues that man has consistently underestimated the magnitude of the world's natural resources...
...script is shoddy enough so that Reynolds might well have been tempted to send it up; maybe that is what he meant to do with the Carson impressions. Screenwriter Beckerman lifts at least two scenes from Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep. He may know quality but he cannot duplicate it, and never makes up his mind whether to do straight hard-boiled melodrama or imitation Damon Runyon. No such doubts apparently plagued the director. He establishes a consistent tone of massive mayhem. Kulik attempts to disguise every lapse in logic with a lapse in taste...
Directed by BUZZ KULIK Screenplay by BARRY BECKERMAN...
...MURRAY BECKERMAN Rochester...
Each member of the Harvard team, which was made up of R. J. Beckerman '34, captain, J. R. Gonzalez '35, N. P. Leiter '33, and E. F. O'Hare '33, unexpectedly received a silver loving...