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...answer is likely to be: not for a while. After a year of crises and threats of more to come, the nation and the world seem eager for a respite. Moreover, the U.S. has long had a tradition of forbearance toward a new President: a willingness to let him show what he can do, even if he does not enjoy wide and enthusiastic public support...
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second...
...maintained if-as demographers widely predict-world population doubles to more than 6 billion by the end of the 20th century. "There are already too many people in the world," he said. "Within a generation, there will be far too many. Within two or three generations-unless we show more sense, good will and foresight than men have ever shown-ordinary human hopes will have disappeared...
...result would be a response to the Kremlin's new aggressiveness, said Rusk, that was "modest enough to show restraint, yet vigorous enough to demonstrate concern." Despite the new Soviet threat that, after all, touches Western Europeans most directly, the European response seemed more modest than vigorous. Italy agreed to a 7% budget increase, equal to an extra $140 million; West Germany promised to spend an additional $180 million and to bring its twelve divisions up to strength. The British managed a neat juggling act by announcing a hike in their contribution without any increase in defense spending, accomplished...
...help; the U.S. Sixth Fleet landed its Marines. Lebanon proceeded to settle its affairs without further outside interference. Russia's Nikita Khrushchev, who had been loudly rattling his rockets and threatening war if the U.S. intervened in Lebanon, quickly backed down in the face of the U.S. show of strength...