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Away in the hills behind the southern Beirut suburb of Baabda, the boom of Israeli heavy artillery was sending shells whistling into the area of the Hippodrome and the park called the 1,001-Pine Forest. This huge region is riddled with P.L.O. bunkers and tunnels, and houses several Katyusha rocket launchers and fieldpieces. In response, P.L.O. Katyushas came crashing down on suspected Israeli positions in East Beirut. Fires flared up along the skyline competing with the flashes and sparks of the artillery The noise level became stupendous: the whoosh-whoosh of the Katyushas, the brazen bark of the tanks...
...COMING BOOM by Herman Kahn; Simon & Schuster; 237pages...
...getting bigger. It would be futile to put a frame around The Coming Boom. The book is more like a sprawling by-the-numbers kit used to paint the dome of a new Renaissance chapel. There the enervated finger of post-industrial Adam is about to be plugged into the socket of divine science. One can even find a title for this vaulting masterpiece: CI. It stands for command, control, communications, computing/information and intelligence. Kahn is not too specific about command and control. His discussion of CI other components describes an information network that he believes should enable government...
Then why expect a boom? Kahn's broadest reason is apolitical: a slowing of population growth and a continuing rise in gross world product should mean that there will be more to go around. In the U.S., he offers the possibility of a $5 trillion gross national product in 2000 that would mean a per capita income of about $20,000. There is no prediction about how this wealth will trickle to 250 million Americans. There is guarded optimism about inflation. Inflation, of course, is very thinkable, though Kahn's thoughts on how to deal with...
Tousled-haired and grinning diffidently, Beaver is a 20th century Tom Sawyer. Able to resist anything but temptation, he is a dimpled noble savage who regards parents as gentle adversaries to be outwitted for their own good. He is a cultural icon for the baby-boom generation, the symbol of the apple-pie joys and melted ice-cream sorrows of an idyllic suburban childhood that never really was. After a successful six-year run, Beaver went off network television in 1963, but it continued to flicker on the mental screens of a generation...