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...recent flood of forecasts, what are the futurists saying? By no means are all their predictions new, but taken together, they present a remarkable vision. Most convenient benchmark for that vision is the year 2000, a rounded and romantic date that is nearer than is generally realized-only 34 years away, it is nearly as close as the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Besides trying to solve the war in Viet Nam, break up NATO and remold the Common Market nearer to his nationalist desires, Charles de Gaulle also has to protect his rear, which was badly mauled in his humiliating encounter with the French electorate in December. Last week, as a starter, he presented a new economic plan aimed at wooing voters back into the Gaullist camp before the upcoming parliamentary elections take place. The plan promised a 10% tax credit on capital spending for business, an easing of credit and price controls, a $20-per-year hike in old-age pensions...
Most of these devices produce strictly one-shot, temporary gains. Without them most economists figure that the deficit in the 1967 Administrative Budget would not be $1.8 billion but nearer $9 billion. Even with those temporary gains, the deficit may rise well beyond the expected figure. The Ad ministration has consistently underestimated the cost of the Viet Nam war; if that war continues to escalate, the President will either have to make more realistic cuts or raise taxes, or both. He will not be able to play the game of nonrecurring gains so actively next year, when keeping the budget...
...front of X, but the distant event will give scientists a rare opportunity to test an equally far-out and still unproven deduction from Albert Einstein's theories of relativity. Instead of simply blocking the light from a distant star that it is eclipsing, Einstein predicted, the nearer star would create a lens-like effect that would actually intensify the image of the eclipsed star, increasing its brightness perhaps more than 1,000 times. The phenomenon would be caused by the closer star's strong gravitational field, which would deflect and focus light from the distant star...
...send several children to college. Just because there are other people who ought to be making more money (teachers come to mind, although in general teacher salaries have been rising fairly rapidly in the last ten years) is no reason why transit workers should not be earning something nearer the wages which other city employees get for comparable work...