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...19th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy '40 yesterday, the Associated Press--the nation's largest news service--devoted five paragraphs to a story about a memorial service held at the Statehouse in Boston. More than twice that amount of space was used to predict today's weather...
...says that it is the lowest since March 1933, during the very worst of the Depression. Rather than sell at such low rates, farmers are putting up their grain in the hope that they will be paid more for it later. That strategy seems doomed, however, because experts now predict that prices will remain low for another two years...
...would take a true optimist to give butter the edge in this debate or to predict that Andropov will have the power, the time, or even the inclination to push through the reforms that are necessary to turn the Soviet economy around. Still, it would be a mistake to underestimate the enduring strength of the gigantic industrial machine that Brezhnev helped build. Moreover, the often cumbersome Soviet political system is still flexible enough to allow a new generation of leaders to make crucial decisions on the allocation of resources, industrial growth and military spending that will assure the Soviet Union...
...question to kill or not to kill is seldom a matter of how much hunting can be permitted without threatening the well-being of a species. Wildlife biologists can accurately predict the effect of a hunting season on a wildlife population. Regulated sport hunting has never threatened any wildlife species in this country. The rising game-animal population in the face of increased hunting attests to this. It is another question whether it is right to hunt a docile animal like the moose. That decision is a matter of personal ethics best left to the individual...
...compound the confusion, the networks varied widely on when they were ready to predict a particular outcome. Indeed, NBC lurched into proclaiming the re-election of Republican Governor James Thompson of Illinois barely an hour after the polls closed; ABC and CBS prudently held off all night, and the race was not settled for Thompson until week's end. In at least one contest, all three networks were wrong: they labeled Representative John Hiler, an Indiana Republican, the loser of a seat he ended up keeping...