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Agronomists have managed to calculate and predict crop disasters, but when it comes to urban blights, no one has devised a coherent method for measuring them, let alone overcoming them. Poverty, crime, narcotics, pollution and sheer physical decay are the new locusts, as terrifyingly confusing as Egypt's plagues...
...supposed to be towers of strength-and yet the child finds adults are fearful too. Home, the child's symbol of safety, has toppled in his mind." Sudden disaster, Stainbrook concludes, "destroys one's confidence in the orderliness of the world; people feel they can't predict their own futures...
...Jesuit schools and Temple University. Now he lives in Vermont, which he calls "the last frontier in the east." He intends to keep up the writing pace as long as he has something to say, and he is fatalistic about how long that may be. It is foolhardy to predict a young writer's future, but if burgeoning energy and imagination count, McHale's rich shanty Irish may be around as long as Faulkner's Snopeses...
...number of Harvard pre-medical students comes despite increasingly intense competition for a limited number of places at the 180 American medical schools. Nearly 15 per cent of the medical school applicants in the class of 1970 were turned down at all their choices. Pre-medical advisors predict that figure will increase...
...predict how effective our plans will be, but this time we do have something ready so that we won't be caught off guard," Harrison said yesterday...