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...Even professional planners are learning (from bruising themselves on the future's impenetrable surface) to put only qualified belief in their own findings. Says Roy Amara, president of the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, Calif.: "Anything that you forecast is by definition uncertain." Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM, would surely have agreed, and perhaps not too long after forecasting "I think there is a world market for about five computers." Leon Eplan, ex-president of the American Institute of Planners and now chairman of the city planning department at the Georgia Institute of Technology, says that...
Perhaps the most intriguing point raised by Will's book is not its specific contents or arguments--for Will himself relishes political argument for the sake of argument, not necessarily for its substance--but the phenomena the book highlights. While most columnists are content to rehash news events, adding a...
"American journalism has lost one of its great mentors," James C. Thomson Jr., current curator of the Nieman Foundation, said yesterday, adding. "Louis Lyons was a national conscience for the profession. He embodied excellence, courage and integrity." Thomson said that even after Lyons retired, he "was constantly in touch with...
Had his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial been violated? A U.S. Appeals Court thought so in 1980. But last week, by a 6-to-3 vote, the Supreme Court ruled otherwise. Because MacDonald's appeals have caused most of the delay since 1975, the key period for...
Peppered by criticism in what he called "our sabotage press," Truman frequently read the newspapers and blew his cork. He lectured reporters on the sins of their profession, calling William Randolph Hearst "the No. 1 whore monger of our time" and Columnist Westbrook Pegler "the greatest character assassin in the...