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Instead of clicking faster than they did the year before, the turnstiles are revolving as sluggishly as a windmill on a calm day. Some skeptics predict that the Fair may end up as much as $50 million in the red by the time it closes on October 17. Attendance, instead of increasing by 37% as Moses had predicted, has fallen off 30% from last year. Though some exhibitors took heart when 13,469 more people showed up this Fourth of July weekend than last, the fact remains that 78,059 more people showed up the same weekend at Palisades Amusement...
...Washington's more arcane arts is estimating beforehand the amount of revenue the Federal Government will receive in any given period. To predict how much money U.S. corporations and 65 million individual taxpayers will be paying in taxes, the Treasury feeds a complex series of figures, estimates and hunches into its computers. In recent years it has been able to guess within one-half of 1 % of the vital figure. Not so this year. As the fiscal year ended this week, the Treasury found itself with a puzzling $1.6 billion more than the $47 billion it had estimated...
...where the cost of living rose 87% last year, has begun to control the world's worst inflation by recessionary shock treatment. Argentina, with less inflation (28% last year), has blundered its way into such a morass of public debt, deficits and fleeing private capital that financial circles predict monetary devaluation...
Neither President Kennedy nor President Johnson has ever supposed that this was going to be an easy contest or one in which there would be a rapid and decisive solution... I do not think we can now predict the exact shape of the eventual settlement. I myself believe that the question of the internal political organization and prospects of non-Communist South Vietnam is quite critical. This indeed is one of the uncertainties in the current situation... The bulk of the effort in Vietnam-in terms of human suffering and human loss-is being made by Vietnamese...
...contributors to the issue are aware of the staggering implications for man and society of a fool-proof predictive psychology. Imagine for a moment that psychophysiologists are ultimately as successful in fact as they are in their wildest dreams--that they are able to understand memory and behavior on the molecular level. This would mean that social relations could be reduced to an intricate but thoroughly comprehensive set of stimuli and responses. If, for example, Lyndon Johnson's neural chemistry was understood in detail, and if all his sources of influence and advice were monitored, it might have been possible...