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With the help of the charts and the company's own meteorologists, field supervisors can predict far in advance almost the exact hour when the peas have reached their point of destiny. Then, loud whistles send workers scrambling into the fields at any hour to harvest the crop. "It sounds silly," admits a Green Giant officer, "but if we figure the peas should be picked at 10 o'clock Sunday night, that is when we start picking." Later, quality-control men count the loose skins in cans-rejecting those with too many -and make an "organoleptic" test...
...paradoxical situation. There is a moment when you know things are happening, but can't predict them. The problem is that most recognition is in terms of memory, like a Matisse shape or a Picasso shape. You want your own shapes, but since you have never seen them before, you have to feel them after they are there...
...cars. There are now five times as many cars for every 100 people in Europe as there were at the start of the postwar boom. The Common Market economists suspect that this means that auto sales in Europe will soon begin to level off, and they predict that if the automakers continue to expand they will find themselves in 1965 with the capacity to produce 6,500,000 vehicles, but only 5,300,000 sales...
...ready to predict how the Boston commuter will respond to all this. But if he takes to it, the Administration will probably step up its efforts to apply the same remedy in other U.S. cities. Failure of the experiment would provide railroads with a justification for cutting commuter service still more. Already Boston & Maine President Daniel Benson has warned that if Boston commuters continue to cling stubbornly to their cars, "the basic needs of financial survival will leave the B. & M. no choice but to divest itself of passenger operations...
...Tired." No one, least of all Lombardi, wants to predict how long the Green Bay Packers will stay on top of their brutally tough sport. "We're tired," he says. "Jim Taylor's down to 204 Ibs., and he should weigh 220. Everybody's feeling the strain." If the weary Packers win their way into the N.F.L. playoff, they will face a New York Giants team, coached by canny Allie Sherman, that is far stronger and far fresher than the squad they trounced last time around. Giant Quarterback Y. A. ("Yat") Tittle is this year...