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...after World War II Proponents foresaw an "Age of Plenty" in which weather would be atomically controlled, cars would travel for years on small pellets of uranium, and the moon would be only a short distance away via atomic powered vehicles. One of the chairmen of the Commission even forecast that electricity would probably be "too cheap to meter" The A.E.C. has spent the last three decades trying to fulfill these high hopes, but, as Ford shows, the intentions have gone dangerously astray...
...entire reactor at the Commission's Idaho test station exploded when a workman, possibly bent on murder-suicide, precipitously removed a safety rod from the core of the reactor. Were this to happen in a major nuclear plant the results would be catastrophic; as Ford optimistically writes. "The forecast accident, if it occurs, will very likely mean the prompt end of commercial nuclear power in the United States...
...last month, Prasong Soonsiri, secretary-general of Thailand's National Security Council, blasted Western nations that have not honored their commitments to resettle Indochinese refugees. Said Prasong: "The lesson we learn is that being too merciful could lead us to bear an endless burden, and it cannot be forecast how much longer the Thai people would want to live with the problem...
...Wicker of the New York Times forecast that concern over Administration designs on Social Security would drive many Republican-leaning elderly voters into the Democratic camp. And David Broder of the Washington Post performed an uncharacteristic double swerve: after ruminating two weeks before the election about "a landslide that may never land," he trumpeted six days before the voting that Democrats were "in striking range of control of the Senate." He then backed off four days later and guessed, correctly, that a standoff was the probable Senate result. As a group the commentators were like generals fighting the previous...
...most tangled polling errors came in California, where almost no one forecast Republican George Deukmejian's 50,000-vote victory over Tom Bradley. Indeed, the Los Angeles Times ran a frontpage story on election morning about the lineup of local politicians vying to succeed Bradley as the city's mayor. The San Francisco Chronicle's first election extra bannered: BRADLEY WIN PROJECTED. While ABC was predicting Deukmejian's victory, its affiliate stations in Los Angeles and San Francisco were using exit polls of their own to call the race for Bradley instead. In the Senate contest...