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Israel Scheffler, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Philosophy, declined to predict how the faculty would receive his report...
...takes no ESP to predict that On a Clear Day You Can See Forever will be a solid smash on Broadway, yet also predictably the show will not set off the seismographic tremors that Alan Lerner has created in the past. Mr. Lerner has chosen to collaborate with the veteran composer Burton Lane, whose brilliant score for Finian's Rainbow of 1947 greatly influenced subsequent musical. The combination of two expect giants leads one to expect the ultimate, and the attempt to floor the audience certainly becomes obvious. But the show unhappily remains more an entertainment than an experience...
...last three decades. Moreover, it is published in a town that is only 36 miles from London, where there are twelve big dailies. Competitors have their doubts that the experiment will succeed. But Lord Thomson of Fleet has planned with care, and he is confident enough to predict that he will some day be publishing eight new suburban dailies in towns ringing London...
Costly Stockpiles. Steel users stocked up so heavily as a hedge against a possible strike that many could operate for two months without buying any more steel. Some steelmen predict that a 30% to 40% drop in orders over the next four months will cut industry output from 75% of capacity to as little as 60% before orders rebound. The Government's experts, on the other hand, believe that the underlying demand for steel in an advancing economy remains so strong that the pace of production will be interrupted for no more than a few months while users whittle...
Some experts predict that Germany's inland waterways will gradually lose ground to trucking and pipelines. Shipping Expert Walter Marquardt, deputy head of the Transport Ministry's inland shipping section, questions the gloomy forecasts, noting that "traffic predictions have almost always proved too low." Even if inland shipping's share of commerce fails to grow proportionately, says Marquardt, it is still bound to increase in absolute terms as growing factories-in Germany and elsewhere-require ever greater amounts of the ores and bulk raw materials that the slow-chugging barges still carry so economically...