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...officials could not predict yesterday how much the state's action will cost. Isreal said, however, that it should save time and money in the long...
Observers believe that the veiled criticism of Wu Teh is especially significant because the first major casualty of the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69 was Peng Chen, who was then the mayor of Peking. Nonetheless, few experts are prepared to predict that a new fullblown Cultural Revolution is in the offing. It is assumed that Mao, whose acquiescence would be needed for a new ultraradical campaign, does not want China's economic development or foreign policy damaged by the kind of bloody disruptions that marked the Cultural Revolution...
Having to testify, he said, would hinder his ability to give "candid and uninhibited" advice to Nixon in private. So the committee postponed the hearings, to the disappointment of members who had hoped to ask Rush what led the President to predict recently a late-1974 pickup in national production and a downturn in inflation...
...chromite. One theory, says Geologist Wilfred Bryan of Woods Hole, is that sea water circulating through fractures in the ridge's rock formations may carry off some of these minerals and concentrate them elsewhere. By learning more about such elusive processes, scientists may some day be able to predict the location of minerals in more accessible regions of the ocean. Says Geologist-Diver Robert Ballard of Woods Hole: "The earth is alive. If we can understand how it works, if we can understand its psyche, we can then go about looking for its resources in a more efficient...
None of the 34 Radcliffe Trustees will venture to predict what the whole body will decide to do about a potential merger agreement with Harvard in the upcoming year. While it is the Radcliffe Trustees who will ultimately decide how far non-merger merger is to go, they are, like most other interested parties in the Harvard community, waiting for the Strauch Committee to produce its report...