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...talk shows aside, commentary is increasingly moving into straight news programs. ABC, in particular, recently revamped its news format to make room for more discussion and debate, interspersing its regular coverage with the broadcast equivalent of columns. Publisher Bill Moyers, former White House aide, recently went on camera to predict that the next President will be faced with "a national political nervous breakdown." Critic Marya Mannes razzed fashion models who have "no visible sexual equipment." Other commentaries have ranged from the trivial to the trenchant. Samples...
...used to push back into correct orbit satellites that have begun to fall toward earth. Others have gone beyond the early idea of a death ray and suggested that laser beams may eventually be powerful enough to provide the ultimate defensive weapon against missiles. Powerful laser beams, they predict, might well make iCBMs obsolete. Focused on an incoming missile, their light would generate enough heat to melt it into uselessness...
...impact is expected to grow severe, especially north of the border. The seaway is the vital artery for Canadian grain exports, for shipment of Nova Scotia coal to Ontario electric plants, for the flow of iron ore to U.S. mills from Labrador and Quebec. Employers and union officials predict that a prolonged tie-up would idle at least 5,000 seamen, plus another 10,000 dockworkers at Great Lakes ports...
Even if the strike ends soon, however, Wallace could not predict any speed-up in installations. "I don't think it would make any appreciable difference," he said...
Both business and Government rely more and more on computers to predict future needs. It is therefore ironic that the computer industry itself vastly underestimated the demands for its products (44,400 computers are at work today, v. a 1954 estimate that 50 would be). Computer makers are now a chronic 25% behind partly because they cannot stock an inventory, partly because they have underestimated the demand for their own product. There are classic examples of underestimation in many other important areas...