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...Kohoutek People" at the Goddard Space Flight Center and interviewed their leader Dr. Stephen Maran, director of NASA'S Operation Kohoutek. Hannifin, a former student of celestial navigation, also consulted with local "sensitives" and was assured that Kohoutek's metaphysical "vibrations" were good. To fully appreciate this portent, Hannifin plans to attend a "celebration of consciousness" this week atop a high-rise apartment building in Washington, with his psyche - and his twelve-power telescope - in sharp focus...
Glassboro was chosen as the site of their two-day talks for reasons of protocol-it was equidistant from Washington and New York City. *One small but possibly telling portent occurred last week. The trade-union newspaper Trud reported that a much ballyhooed Siberian power generator supposedly put in service five years ago had in fact burned out at the factory and never been installed. Western economic analysts could not recall a case of similar candor...
...first time in months, led by a drop in meat that partly reflected the recent nationwide meat boycott. But prices for a broad range of industrial commodities leaped 1.4%, the largest one-month rise since 1951 and an ominous indication that inflation is spreading from farm to factory. Another portent of gathering inflation: major New York banks last week lifted their prime lending rate to businessmen by one-fourth...
...show a filmed performance of O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night by Laurence Olivier and England's National Theater troupe. Many specials will probably turn out to be less than special, but in their diversity and indefinability they may be a good portent: they constitute a format that offers some hope of liberation from the very concept of format...
Instead he wanders from one expensive muscular pursuit to another, shooting rapids and doves, fishing wahoo and tarpon, doing each deed seriously and well with the finest equipment, at precisely the spot in the hemisphere where it is to be done best. No special portent is involved here; one of the novel's considerable virtues is that Blake's frivolous output of ergs is not intended to signify the decline of the West...