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...Malthusian limit will never be reached? Not so, says Physicist Heinz von Foerster, 48, of the University of Illinois, the latest to cry extinction of the human race. He does it, not as a mystic does, having undergone some shattering revelation, but with earnest and scholarly equations. His doomsday is the year 2026. In the November 4 Science, Professor von Foerster calculates by elaborate mathematics what will happen if the human species avoids large-scale disaster (e.g., nuclear war), sets up a cooperative world society, develops technical methods that yield an unlimited food supply and continues to increase...
...four nations with nuclear weapons is the equivalent of 10,000 tons of T.N.T. for every man, woman, and child on earth; the United States alone has sufficient nuclear power to wipe out the Soviet Union two-and-one-half times over. There is talk of a Doomsday Machine, powerful enough to destroy the entire world, which would be detonated the moment the United States is attacked. These facts are terrifying; they make the arms race a real and immediate concern of every American citizen. It is essential that they be presented and discussed, but the SANE rally ignored them...
Charles could yield to Parliament or thunder at it, and gain his ends by either device. His lack of vindictiveness was astonishing; of the calumnies of Lord Shaftesbury, the Whig leader who had hoped to execute him, the King remarked merely that "at doomsday we shall see whose arse is blackest." The monarch died in 1685, surrounded at first by musicians and concubines, and at the end by clerics and physicians. He was succeeded by his brother, James II, whom Nell called "dismal Jimmy," and of whom Charles had observed that his mistresses were so ugly that his priest...
...hungry government of President Charles de Gaulle last week slipped in a sly decree among its last-minute emergency measures. From now on, every town hall in France will have a "Doomsday Book," available to the public, that states precisely the amount each taxpayer contributes to the treasury. As a Finance Ministry official put it: "A citizen may notice that one of his neighbors has a rather high standard of living," then, on leafing through the Doomsday Book, he may "express some astonishment at the discrepancy between his outward signs of wealth and the amount of revenue declared." Of course...
Shadow of Doomsday. Just such an incident was the theme of J. B. Priestley's antiwar melodrama called Doomsday for Dyson, which millions of Britons saw over TV. At Birmingham University a student "peace committee" put on a showing of the film, The Shadow of Hiroshima. The press reported daily the progress of a survey being made of university students by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Though the results were hardly conclusive -e.g., only 1,330 out of London University's 24,000 students even bothered to answer the questionnaire-the press gave the distinct impression that those...