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National Goals And Human Resources Development, Vernon L. Israelsen

Faculty Honor Lectures

During this year the United States will reach a population of 200 million persons. In materials things it is, by a wide margin, the richest nation on earth. With approximately 6 to 7 percent of the World's population it will produce at least one-third of the world's goods and services. Measured from almost any quantifiable category or criteria, it ranks first. In per capita income we are substantially above our nearest competitor. The gross national product in 1966 was $3770 per person. We could, on any afternoon, take the entire population for an automobile ride and have everyone sit in …