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...fairly easy for one to predict that if Allende wins, there is a good chance that he will establish over a period of years some sort of Communist government. In that case you would have one not on an island off the coast which has not a traditional relationship and impact on Latin America, but in a major Latin American country you would have a Communist government, joining for example, Argentina, which is already deeply divided, along a long frontier, joining Peru, which has already been heading in directions that have been difficult to deal with, and joining Bolivia, which...
...died recently at Gulf yielded some 300 trillion leprosy bacilli-good news for medical researchers who have been searching for ways to cultivate the bacteria for laboratory studies. Doctors will also be able to use the infected tissue to make a diagnostic reagent called lepromin, which is used to predict the severity of a leprosy patient's disease. The single New Iberia animal has yielded enough of the chemical to perform 15 million tests-about as many as there are leprosy patients in the world...
...this year, Prime Minister Wilson this week is expected to call new parliamentary elections for early October to try to win a majority government. Recent polls indicate that no party will gain a majority, but Wilson's advisers see no advantage in delaying the balloting, especially since experts predict that Britain's economic situation will only get worse in the near future. Yet if another minority government is elected, it may not be able to impose the necessary stringent economic measures; hostility between Britain's classes could grow and create a political crisis. Trade Union Leader Hugh...
...reasons like these, a nation's birth rate is difficult to predict. The history of demographic predictions, in fact, strongly counsels humility in forecasting birth rates. During the Depression, with its dampening effect on the national psyche as well as on the economy, estimates of future birth rates proved to be much too low. Later, stunned by the postwar baby boom, demographers and sociologists of the '60s warned about cities that would be literally crawling with people. Now that specter has been replaced by the beatific vision of Z.P.G. The fact is that many births that should...
...possibly the most distant objects in the universe-up to 12 billion light-years away -promise to take on more earthly importance. Scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are hoping to use the bursts of high-frequency radio energy that come from quasars to help them predict earthquakes...