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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prepare Orissa for the cyclone. When it was first spotted and reported by a U.S. weather satellite a full day before it hit land, the storm seemed to be headed for the very area of East Pakistan that was devastated last year. Then it changed direction, but the satellite forecast well in advance that it was headed for Orissa. "The authorities seem always caught unawares by calamities, even when they are at least partially foreseeable," said the Statesman, one of India's leading dailies. "The traditional attitude of resignation to the caprices of nature seems totally out of tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Misery's Spawning Ground | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

Even before the polls closed, a downcast politician at the Vienna headquarters of Austria's conservative People's Party was able to forecast the results. "The ball rolls," he said resignedly, "and it rolls to the left." When all of the nearly 5,000,000 ballots were counted last week, the Socialist Party of Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, 60, had won a majority of the vote-the first for any party since the founding of the Austrian Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: The Ball Rolls Left | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

What makes the economists' forecast for 1972 so encouraging is the amount of real, noninflationary growth. Heller expects that the rate of real growth will jump to 6¼%; meanwhile, the inflation rate will shrink from this year's 4.7% to 3%. If those results are achieved, the U.S. economy will expand faster next year than at any time since the mid-'60s. One bread-and-butter result, predict Heller, Grove and Eckstein, will be a reduction in the unemployment rate from the current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: $100 Billion in Growth: A Startling Forecast | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

...cheaply in Britain and syndicated around the world. His first production, the 1954 series Robin Hood, is still being rerun in Poland, Kuwait, New Zealand and many other countries. Over the years, he has sold more than 100,000 hours of programming to 104 countries-"everything but the weather forecast," he told TIME Correspondent Christopher Porterfield. Among his recent exports to the U.S. are the Tom Jones Show, Hamlet starring Richard Chamberlain, and two new series this fall-The Persuaders, with Tony Curtis and Roger Moore, and Shirley's World, with Shirley MacLaine (see TELEVISION). Last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTREPRENEURS: Top Grade | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

...danger of Stalinism exists, that is, it is possible that a group could get into power on the basis of independence and consolidate themselves as a new elite. However, the consciousness of the Quebecois is at such a level that such a thing would be very difficult to forecast. We must develop a category of revolutionary which possesses the technical and organizational skills and ideological clarity necessary to carry out these tasks, at the same time to be able to ally with young people who are questioning present day values and have strong liberatarian tendencies. In the final analysis...

Author: By Claire Culhane and Jeff Marvin, S | Title: "We Are Part Of Revolution Everywhere" An Interview with Pierre Vallieres | 9/28/1971 | See Source »

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