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Actually, the Administration's blacklist is based more on principle than on strategic considerations. Of 119 free-flag ships that called at North Vietnamese ports in 1965 (v. 401 in 1964), only 44 did so after the President's July decision to build up U.S. military aid to Saigon. The U.S. faces a difficult problem in cutting the flow further, since this nation is not formally at war with North Viet Nam and must rely on persuasion rather than force to stop the trade. But the expressions of disapproval-and the high cost of insurance-have had some...
...main land, their traditional answer to chronic overpopulation, has slowed as jobs have become more plentiful at home. Vigorous opposition from the Roman Catho ic Church has all but wrecked any ef ective government birth control program. Population is now increasing at an average 2.3% a year (v. 1.5% in the 50 states), and at this rate - with no marked rise in emigration - will nearly double in the next 30 years. Today the island occupies a unique but not entirely comfortable economic status. Not yet developed, yet no longer underdeveloped, it stands betwixt and between, a demi-developed society...
...more dramatic changes will be climate control. Tempo scientists estimate that the entire electrical energy needs of the U.S. could be supplied by a dozen nuclear generating stations spotted around the country, each with a capacity on the order of 60,000 megawatts (v. 1,974 megawatts for Grand Coulee). If one such station were built on Mount Wilson above Los Angeles, the heat produced as a byproduct could be guided into the atmosphere, raising the inversion layer that hangs over Los Angeles to 19,000 feet, thus ridding the city of smog. A sea breeze could be drawn into...
Stability v. Stimulation. What kind of life would Mark have with his father? "We believe it would be unstable, unconventional, arty, bohemian and probably intellectually stimulating," answered Justice Stuart. Although the boy "would have more freedom of conduct and thought, with an opportunity to develop his individual talents," Stuart went on, "we believe security and stability in the home are more important than intellectual stimulation." While his grandparents will be more than 70 by the time he graduates from high school, "the Bannister home provides Mark with a stable, dependable, conventional, middle-class Middle West background and an opportunity...
...Wendell V. Clausen, professor of Greek and Latin, will head the Classics department. Andrew M. Gleason, professor of Mathematics, will chair the mathematics department, and Juan Mari Professor of Romance Languages features, will direct the department of Romance Languages and Literature...