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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...message is contained mainly in a paperback "biography" called The Ultimate Frontier, which he wrote under the name of Eklal Kueshana. In it, Kieninger predicts that economic depression and severe social upheaval will hit the U.S. in the mid-1970s, followed by an awful war and massive earthquakes at the turn of the century. By 2001, mankind will be virtually destroyed-but not Kieninger's followers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Secret of Stelle | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...acres and obtained necessary zoning permits. A woodworking factory is already in operation. Members are putting up other buildings on weekends. Ford County (pop. 16,000) does not know it yet, but according to the Stelle timetable the community is scheduled to be 10,000 strong by the mid-1970s, when the rest of U.S. civilization is expected to disintegrate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Secret of Stelle | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...experience of the 1960s and early 1970s and a reading of U.S. history has persuaded us that the problems we confront cannot be solved within the framework of the capitalist society. (The argument is spelled out in some detail in R. Edwards, M. Reich, and T. Weisskopf, The Capitalist System, a book that grew out of our experience teaching...

Author: By Samuel Bowles, | Title: Hardly a Surprise | 2/27/1973 | See Source »

...President is exactly right." Still, Donovan pointed out that "the U.S. Congress with all its difficulties and shortcomings is still in many respects the strongest parliament in the world." Said he: "Its inadequacy is relative to the complex needs and stresses and opportunities of our society in the 1970s. The underlying question is whether at the highest level of national government we still see a place for collective wisdom drawn from the judgments and insights of many people-even as many as 535 people-as well as for the centralized, individual decision making, which is also essential in our system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Toward Restoring the Balance | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

...condominiums, all of which are still filling up rapidly. As a result, builders expect to get down to a rate of starts-still among the fastest in history-that can be sustained for years to come. Marriages are expected to average 2,200,000 a year through the 1970s, v. 1,800,000 annually in the 1960s, and each wedding creates a new family that is a prospective buyer or renter of a home or apartment of its own. The exact size of the 1973 decline in housing starts depends partly on how deeply Washington cuts subsidies for public housing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: At Last, a Slowdown | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

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