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...buyer's market at Ithaca was caused by Cornell's experiences with ticket sales last year. With the 1970 finals at Lake Placid, N. Y., approximately 500 Big Red followers ordered tournament tickets in early February. Most of them were surprised with telegrams a month later, that stated that the tournament games were sold out. As a result. this year ticket sales in Ithaca were heavy way back in November...
...complete the irony of the situation, Syracuse's auditorium is much larger than the Lake Placid rink so without nearby Cornell or Clarkson in the tournament, it is very unlikely that the games will be sold...
However, he also predicts an upsurge in drug use this spring, although "it will still be placid compared to last spring. Then, it was just a regular electric koolaid punch, for months...
...dawn promised a placid day: the first rays of a sun that would warm the Los Angeles basin to a summery 82° glimmered in the east. Then, at 41 seconds past 6, the earth rocked, jolting 10 million Southern Californians awake-and into instant wonderment or terror...
With a few exceptions, the record of the social forecasters is even more dismal than that of their brethren in the physical sciences. In 1784 the Marquis de Condorcet, a leading mathematician and philosopher of the Enlightenment, saw a placid present and looked forward to an even more placid future. "The great probability," he said, "is that we will have fewer great changes and fewer large revolutions to expect from the future than from the past. The prevailing spirit of moderation and peace seems to assure us that henceforth wars will be less frequent." Reverse everything and Condorcet would have...