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Doubtless on the great anthropomorphic ocean every swell believes it self the wave of the future. But given present populations and food sources, Barkas' prophecy seems valid: the vegetable passion is no longer a joke. It is likely to gain adherents and political significance in the next decades. There may even come a day when it provokes books of vigor and practicality instead of green, leafy prattle. ∎Stefan Kanfer
...armaments-manufacturing industries expands. The world's arms supply will swell even more, as thousands of tanks and aircraft become surplus when NATO and the Warsaw Pact introduce a new generation of weapons for their forces. Even South Viet Nam has reportedly begun to dispose of weapons that were left behind by the American troops...
Since Junior was last seen slipping over a snow ridge somewhere in the frozen North, Dad joins forces with a just-plain-swell American (David Hartman) who specializes in Arctic studies. With an occasional hand from an eccentric French blimp captain, these two run Junior to ground-rather strange ground too. He has been lodged in a verdant valley that is nestled behind some icecaps and warmed, as Scientist Hartman conjectures, "by volcanic springs." Even more amazing, the folks who inhabit the valley are Vikings, descendants of the old explorers, who live, work and fight just as their forebears...
...budget in an attempt to quell inflation. That decision alone, tentatively taken after two days of intensive discussions between Ford and his economic advisers at the President's vacation chalet in Vail, Colo., could mean that the federal deficit for the fiscal year beginning next July will swell to a massive $35 billion. The fact that the Administration is even contemplating such a deficit, which would be by far the biggest in U.S. peacetime history, shows that Ford is coming around, despite all public denials, to a view that recession has replaced inflation...
...economy unavoidable. As car sales continued to skid, Detroit announced plans for more production cutbacks; that will add substantially to the 205,000 auto workers -about 25% of the auto-industry labor force-already idled and further bloat the nation's jobless rate, which is expected to swell to as much as 8% next year from its present 6.5%. According to a forecast issued by the Paris-based Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development last week, the U.S. will be the "most depressed" of the world's major industrialized nations next year (see following story...