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...Taxpayers Eve, gloomiest night of the year. As last-minute taxpayers trudged morosely to post offices to send off their returns, they were surprised to bump into federal bureaucrats who had come out to greet them with smiles, coffee and doughnuts. The friendly feds thanked each taxpayer profusely for helping to keep them in business. Bowled over by this display of bureaucratic concern, the taxpayer went home with a feeling of gratitude toward a government that so obviously cares...
Other downbeat news darkened the gloomiest week that U.S. business has shuddered through in recent years. In Washington, embarrassed Administration officials conceded that the budget surpluses they had predicted for fiscal 1970 and 1971 will turn to deficits. On Wall Street, the most unnerving stock market reports since the Depression 1930s became daily more dismal. The Dow-Jones industrial average fell 40 points to a new seven-year low of 662; during the past 18 months, it has plunged more than 320 points...
...name." He has a vision of what the results of that plunge may be: the seething, hungry masses in Calcutta "give us an idea of what the world will look like when it is really breaking down." Right or wrong, Watt demands special respect. Backing up his gloomiest predictions are an interdisciplinary team of busy scientists and a bank of whirring computers...
Just how much damage had been done? As Bing and his aides desperately juggled logistics, it seemed considerable, but far less than had appeared likely during the gloomiest weeks of struggle. Most of the star singers are available, but fitting them into an impromptu schedule will be a computer-size job. The delay has ruled out four fancy new productions: Herbert von Karajan's long-awaited Siegfried, Orfeo ed Euridice, Weber's gloomily romantic Der Freischutz, and a Russian-language Boris Godunov. But the Met's first week will probably open with Aïda and Leontyne...
...prospect of starvation for a burgeoning world population. Actually, the problem could be manageable before any frogman wets a foot; Oxford Agronomist Colin Clark calculates that if all the presently arable land were farmed as the Dutch do it, it could support a population of 28 billion. Even the gloomiest forecasts assume a world population of not more than twice the present size, or 6 billion by the year...