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...enough people will ride the lines. BART is expected to pay its own way. (One reason for all the space-age automation was to minimize the labor costs that account for about 80% of the costs of the East Coast's deficit-ridden transit systems.) Projections for 1975 predict 200,000 riders on weekdays, or 60 million a year. This would account for 11 % of the present commuting traffic. But a telephone survey indicated that only 7% of those questioned intend to use the system once it goes into operation...
...Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken, the Dutch electronics giant, demonstrated a new video system. It consists of a device the size of a phonograph turntable, which attaches to an ordinary TV set. Instead of book-sized cassettes, it uses lightweight aluminum-coated disks that resemble long-playing records. Philips' scientists predict that the set attachment and the disks could be mass-produced within three years...
...would predict that at the end of the first 100 days of a Spiro Agnew Administration, the entire nation would be in need of electroshock therapy...
...part of the people rather than just a politician," argues Billing Clerk Lynda Bialy, a young voter in Buffalo, N.Y. Surprisingly, only one out of seven who expect to vote for McGovern will do so on the basis of any specific issue, although inconsistently, two-thirds of the panel predict that the campaign will be fought primarily on issues. For the first time in these surveys, there is some significant opinion among Democrats (one out of seven) that McGovern may be too radical on issues. Bookkeeper Jeanette Senkowski of Redford Township, Mich., thinks McGovern "changes his positions too often; whatever...
...learn more about these flare-ups-and also how to predict them-scientists have established some 45 solar observatories around the world...