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...told the committee that it was most important to stop the boom before it began, because inflation becomes increasingly difficult to restrain due to the losses suffered by speculators. The government must make clear its intention of stopping speculation, he told the investigators, for a boom can begin even with safeguards present...
Your Jan. 10 article "Of People and Plenty" overlooks some important considerations...A serious look at Japan and Puerto Rico would, I think, restrain your optimism in dismissing Malthus and planned parenthood so quickly...However, it would be foolish to neglect the planning of our population...with the necessary facilities to meet the demands which it will make...We should not welcome an increase in population unless we have the schools and the recreational facilities to meet the legitimate needs of an increased population...
Miami Beach's tensely anxious Sans Souci Hotel readied the full treatment for its imminent guests, the touring Shah of Iran and his luscious Queen Soraya. The protocol section of the U.S. State Department was also concerned: it wanted to restrain the overzealous hotel from whipping up the Shah's visit into a lather of commercialized hullabaloo. The Sans Souci insouciantly proceeded to run a red carpet from its lobby to the street, redecorate a 16-room wing as the imperial suite, paint the Shah's coat of arms on every royal door in sight. Hardheaded...
...When you feel like acquiring a good book, buying a volume which attracts you, or you feel ought to attract you, or because it is a bargain, don't restrain the impulse. Get the book at once...
...believe we can have at least a gleam of hope. Moscow has made many declarations of "peaceful coexistence." I would rather they had spoken of "peaceful cooperation." It may be that they want more time to consolidate their gains. It may be that internal forces are working to restrain them from within. Some revolutions have the bad habit of devouring their young. At least their successors are less violent...