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...million people. Some authorities in Tokyo want them to begin thinking about the unthinkable. Thus when Laird came to town, Japanese Defense Agency officials recruited sympathetic Western reporters to raise the nuclear issue, knowing that almost any reply would produce considerable fallout. It was, Japanese officials predict, only the first effort in a continuing campaign to "season the minds" of the Japanese public...
Although the increased emission of gases from Etna in recent years gave scientists some hint of impending trouble, they are still unable to predict eruptions with any accuracy. As a result, they concentrate on trying to minimize damage once the lava flows. Belgian Volcanologist Haroun Tazieff, whose asbestos-suited sorties into fuming craters round the globe have earned him the sobriquet "The Inferno Detective," has suggested bombing Etna to test methods for diverting the lava flow from villages. The Italians shrugged off the idea. It could raise a Solomonic question: Whose land should be spared and whose should be ruined...
...evident. As the "options" man, Kissinger would be expected to give a fair, objective account of each alternative; as confidential advisor to the President, his strength would rest more on his personal relationship with Nixon than on his policymaking abilities-a relationship that would have been very difficult to predict. "I suppose what really was clear was that Henry Kissinger did not intend to become a man of particular influence," Thomas Schelling, Kissinger's closest colleague on the Harvard Faculty, said recently. "I think he honestly thought that there was a more detached role for himself." So Kissinger had gone...
...distance of 450 miles. The once flourishing tradition of personal correspondence has faded in the U.S. For years, Americans have tended to favor the more direct communion of telephone wires. Given the condition of telephone service in some parts of the country, however, it may be safe to predict a small renaissance of letter writing in America, even at the higher prices. Of course, if the postal service does not improve either, there might be an instauration of drums, flashing mirrors in code, smoke signals, yodeling and great howls across the countryside...
...Kenneth Burke proposed a Government lottery of two-year-olds to decide which of them will be unemployed when they grow up. Those who are selected will not have to bother with school at all. Satire aside, a plausible case can be made that the Government should try to predict the future manpower needs for every occupation, and then channel the intake into universities, discipline by discipline. This kind of massive educational planning is done to various extents in Communist countries, as well as in Sweden and France...