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...Work. All the conditions usually blamed for Asia's backwardness-such as lack of capital, of resources, of education-certainly exist, reports Myrdal. But far more damaging to progress are what he sees as basic Asian character traits and attitudes. In one long sentence that amounts to a Doomsday Book, he lists them as: "Low levels of work discipline, punctuality and orderliness; superstitious beliefs and irrational outlook; lack of alertness, adaptability, ambition and general readiness for change and experiment; contempt for manual work; submissiveness to authority and exploitation; low aptitude for cooperation." The last, Myrdal notes ironically...
...overall battle? No, says Professor Kingsley Davis, director of international-population and urban research at the University of California. Davis, in the Nov. 10th issue of Science, writes that the family-planning programs as presently conceived and executed cannot prevent the world from rapidly populating itself to doomsday...
...From the doomsday tone of Dirksen's Senate speech, it was not easy to deduce that he was talking about reapportionment. For the fact is that since 1962, when the Supreme Court issued the first of a series of "one-man, one-vote" rulings designed to redraw state legislatures and congressional districts, the effects have been surprisingly salutary...
...Daughter Jill St. John. Once aboard, he detects dead fish in Lawford's bullion and bumbles off in search of the source. Lest the implausibility of it all seem unimportant, all traces of wit, style, imagination, intelligence or any other compensation have been carefully expunged. So too in Doomsday Flight, in which it is revealed that a self-pitying psychopath (Edmond O'Brien) has placed a bomb aboard Captain Van Johnson's airliner. The bomb is set to go off when the plane descends to 4,000 feet; two sniveling hours later, fast-thinking Captain Johnson lands...
WORLD PREMIERE (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Rod Serling's suspense drama, Doomsday Flight, will be shown on TV before release in the movie theaters-starring Jack Lord, Van Johnson, Edmond O'Brien, Katherine Crawford, John Saxon and Richard Carlson...