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While it is difficult to predict what Forsyte's fate will be in America, it deserves to gather a coterie of faithful followers. The series is a stylish and fast-paced portrayal of Victorian morals and manners as evidenced by one fascinating family. On one hand, it is gripping, dramatic and highly believable. On the other, it is totally entertaining, thus ably and artistically showing what television can do when it sets its standards high...
AUTOMAKERS are perennially optimistic, and this year is no exception. Despite signs of ebbing consumer confidence and new models that are relatively unchanged, they predict that sales of U.S. and imported cars in the 1970-model year will come close to the 9,600,000-unit level...
Four-channel sound, soon to be available only on prerecorded tape (and only from Vanguard Records) has rich though agonizing implications for the record industry. For years, enthusiasts have predicted that tape would replace records, pointing out that it wears longer and is almost impossible to scratch. Its major flaw-tape hiss-has finally been alleviated with the improvement of tape materials. The cartridge and cassette business is booming. Some seers now predict that the wonders of quadrisonic sound will provide a final push for tape against disks...
...with himself, and be mistrustful of most people. Many heavy drug users, says Anthony F. Philip, a psychologist who heads the Columbia College student-counseling service, are driven by an "intolerable, chronic, low-grade depression," which includes "a sense that somehow they have been cheated by life." Psychologists cannot predict which social drinkers will become alcoholics, and they have no sure litmus test for spotting potential drug abusers either. They warn, however, that the young should be particularly worried if they find themselves popping drugs to overcome an emotional upset or calm their worries about the draft, bad grades...
Deutsch has plans to use the facilities made available through the Cambridge Project to develop a theoretical model of national assimilation and social mobilization. Projects of this type- the possible applications of which are simply impossible to predict- are not likely to receive support from anywhere if they don't get it from the Defense Department. Everyone would prefer that the money were available from the National Science Foundation, but it just isn't. And this calls for a final disgression...