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Died. Ragnar Frisch, 77, Norwegian economist who, with Dr. Jan Tinbergen of The Netherlands, was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Economics, in 1969; in Oslo. Collaborators since the '30s, Frisch and Tinbergen were honored for developing econometrics, a branch of economics that employs complex mathematical formulas to predict how a change in one of a national economy's variables will affect the others. While Tinbergen applied econometrics to underdeveloped countries, Frisch worked closer to home and came to be regarded as the father of Scandinavia's modern planned economic systems...
...detecting slight shifts in the tilt of the ground, or leakage of underground gases, or local changes in the natural magnetic field, scientists can determine that dangerous stresses and strains are building up in the earth. Yet they are still unable to predict reliably when or even where earthquakes will strike. Now, as a result of Russian findings in a remote region of Central Asia and a parallel discovery in New York State, seismologists may well have moved a little closer to a long-sought goal: developing an accurate early warning system for major upheavals of the earth...
What makes the meet extremely difficult to predict is the balance and potential of the Crimson and B.C. Most events will involve head-to-head competition and thus the scores could fluctuate wildly depending on which team wins...
...Your comment on my remarks in "Swinging Future" omits the reason that led me to predict an increase in this kind of behavior. Mate exchange is a traditional human expedient to provide surrogate kin. Kin today are in short supply, and in a zero-population-growth society they will be fewer still. Today's swingers may not realize the origins of their behavior, but its significance goes beyond sexual restlessness...
...post-Beatles rock now, music returns to its roots--folk, blues, and jazz--and a new synthesis follows when the market is ripe. But no one is going to explode new group excitement in music while Nixon is President; given the apparent mood of audiences and performers. I predict relative stagnation for at least two or three more years...