Word: futurologists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many, the case presents a difficult dilemma. Although the West German constitution states clearly that "the dwelling is inviolable," observed Writer and Futurologist Robert Jungk, "we are already on our way to a nuclear state" in which "forces are so dangerous that everything must be protected and everyone watched...
...anxious to resume dividend payments. But one Genesco stockholder who seems pleased by developments is none other than Maxey Jarman. Not long ago, he sent his son a copy of a book on airplanes, inscribed with a kind personal note. In return, Frank Jarman sent him a copy of Futurologist Herman Kahn's optimistic book The Next 200 Years. Says Franklin Jarman: "Time heals everything." Profits help...
...good, but also that the best is yet to come. A soon-to-be-released study commissioned by the Elysée Palace two years ago limns an intoxicating future. France's robust 6% rate of growth will continue, argues the report by the European branch of Futurologist Herman Kahn's Hudson Institute, meaning that by 1985 the country could well capture West Germany's place as the world's fourth strongest economic power (after the U.S., the Soviet Union and Japan). In the meantime, the report predicts that per capita income will rise from...
...Moscow, French economists expect the nation to increase exports from 14% of production now to 19% by 1980. Per capita gross national product ($2,064) is already ahead of West Germany's ($ 1,848). Some time in the middle of this decade, according to Common Market economists and Futurologist Herman Kahn's Hudson Institute, France's total G.N.P. will surpass that of West Germany. The result would give Frenchmen the world's fourth largest economy (after the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and Japan...
...cement his relations with U.S. conservatives in advance of the 1972 election. If the American effort fails, the U.S. loses prestige. Yet the plan has a sort of perverse virtue in that it offers neither total victory nor total defeat to any of the principals involved. As Hudson Institute Futurologist Herman Kahn approvingly describes it, the policy amounts to "a limited doublecross of everyone...