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Moreover, even if it could be proved to the general satis faction of scientists that certain "endowed" individuals can trans mit messages from one to another (telepathy), predict events (precognition) or control an object by their mental powers (psychokinesis), scientists would still ask, How did they do it? What mysterious powers lurk inside them? In short, says Gunther Stent in a recent article in Scientific American, there would have to be some revolutionary new paradigm to explain what now seems to be a complete breach of elementary physical laws...
...South Vietnamese government outpost near the Cambodian border, Tong Le Chan, some 400 ARVN troops were surrounded by an entire Communist regiment, and large-scale fighting there seemed to be imminent. Some intelligence experts predict a general surge of Communist military activity later this month...
...programmers are like astrologers: every spring they nervously plan for the future by trying to predict what the viewing public will be buying in the fall. Since they all follow the same arcane guidelines, the Nielsen ratings, their predictions are usually much alike. As the networks completed their fall lineup last week, the pattern was clear: cops and comedy-and precious little in between...
Kent Frizzell, an assistant attorney general, negotiated the pact to set up Washington talks. Although no one can predict with any certainly the consequences of the events at Wounded Knee, a shakeup at Interior and the BIA seems inevitable...
Shift. Nixon has argued lately that he needs exactly such flexible authority to get other countries to tear down barriers to U.S. goods. Just how such authority would work out in practice is difficult to predict, because the only consistency in the President's record on trade is that he has seemed to shift with the political winds. Recently, he has loosened U.S. quotas on imports of meat and oil, in response to rising public worry about inflation and the shortage of fuel. But he has also bowed to business pressure and restricted imports of textiles and steel. Some...