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...Barbados, partners in Jamaica, esu in the Bahamas, and chitty (the Hindi form from English chit) or susu in Trinidad. The Brazilian flair is in raising the ante to allow major purchases, and in raising the tone of the whole operation by calling the group a "consortium." I predict West Indians will be purchasing cars this way within a month after TIME arrives...
Some time in the '70s, most com puter men predict, today's software knot should be untangled, partly by a vast expansion of computer schools and partly by more automation. Computer companies are straining to concoct programs that write other programs. Thus they foresee the day when a few standardized reels of tape will begin to replace programmers at the simpler levels. Still, few in the industry expect competent technicians to face unemployment. If today's pattern holds, every new triumph in computer technique will only fortify the demand for wider applications. The saturation point for computers...
Another incident was precipitated when a resident surprised everyone by signing himself back into the hospital. The students decided that henceforth each would involve himself with a particular resident so as to be able to predict storms. Fortunately the patient returned three days later. The students found that structured relationships were not so successful as the normal give-and-take, but the experience was useful for all concerned...
Author W. H. Auden complains that "it looks as if traditional morality is to be succeeded by fashionable morality" and predicts that "heroin and Sade will be in one year, cocoa and virginity the next." Matters may never come to that, but if they do, the British will certainly talk about the change candidly. The M.P.s debating the homosexuality and abortion bills at times became so detailed and clinical in their discussion that Lord Boothby, though a supporter of both bills, was moved to predict: "We shall not hear of sex in this house again for a very long time...
...then there are some like Grogan who concentrate on the races and make elaborate analyses of the factors, and predict who'll win. To Grogan's mind, it looks like Secretary of State Kevin White and School Committeewoman Mrs. Louise Day Hicks as the nominees in the September Mayoralty primary. Grogan doesn't go beyond that, however. He won't predict just yet who'll be the next mayor. He'll tell you who won't be the next mayor, though. Topping that list is John Sears. "Sears." says Grogan, "is a Republican, and though the election is non-partisan...