(egies

= at quite low speeds. And all

into flames when rear-ende

the other. massive “recalls”
-by-Detroit in-recent: years 0:

| -overdose

y orbit for years. They ap-

- parently didn’t bother to run —

thé effect of a. possible
OF
‘through their computer. -

In any event, if Skylab.

ing ; started to act skittishly, they.

Sig ee

“Wha ver - le one. may

btedly -the age’ of
rts. They proliferate in
y field. of human
Citivity.
ecome the world’s biggest —

Unfortunately for the. est
Of -us:there'’s some. evidence.
. that the goofs. committed by.
experts are now tending to

multiply at. approximately |

as ‘Same rate:as. the, experts ©

oe mselves._ oe
- "NUMBERS,

. ‘WRONG '.

: Int the case, of Skylab the
“boffins ‘at - NASA . (all. due
“credit to them) have made
“mo ‘bones about. the. fact that .
“they, got.. their“ numbers .
‘wrong. They : expected ‘the’ :
_ thing to stay, ‘up. happily. in

ay.: about: themi, | today is.

-Expertise -has

“si ngle growth industry. * —

_knew- ,they could ‘always ~~
‘Send up a team of-mechanics

to. fix the trouble. But this
~time ‘it.
“numbers | they’. got . ‘wrong..

Their budget, it seems, Was —

cut and. the ‘repair crew
never got off the ground.’

“Sorry about that, ‘fellows,
but not to worry: Just stay in
‘the basement of a steel and
‘concrete ‘highrise. until
Thursday lunchtime and you
‘should be okay.!” .

xpeits: in” - other fields ~~
“yarely, if ever, cohfess their
goofs with the same cheery
-frankness as the NASA boys.
When their foul-ups * come
home to roost, they may be
forced -- by public opinion
or the law -- to: ‘do something
about them. But never
expect a red-blooded expert
-ever to admit that he boobed
in the first place.

It took .a whole battalion
of experts to design the
_Three - Mile Island nuclear
power plant and sister plants.
elsewhere. , Despite the

* Children’ 3 Floor. ‘Campaign, Lions Gate Hospital

, Fotal to Date:

Sunspots a

was. the- “dollar

recent néar-explosion which
came within a hairbreadth of.

‘the

causing half the state of
Pennsylvania to be
evacuated, they’re still
-assuring us that nuclear
power plants are really as
‘safe as. the luminous dial on
your wrist watch.
. LEMON .
GROWERS

At took- another. battalion --

of experts to design the DC
10 whose engine fell off a
couple of months ago at
Chicago, causing the. death
of everyone aboard in one of

the world’s. worst air
disasters.
It was experts,

presumably, who designed
the Firestone 500 tire. And
Pinto, -\with its in-.

_ convenient habit of bursting

Bay duplex o

~ The soap opera-type
drama _ which < captivated
West Vancouver Council

automobiles with Potentially :
sthalt defects. —

a thalidomide. And. for dozens. 7
ae ‘other rugs 9 which, more

. workhorse .- of the. medical oot

*perts,. operated by: experts) — _

"js. now on trial, suspected in -

_-) -/ many cases: of. administering: -
. .-far-greater. doses of radiation ~

_ than’ are. either safe Or".
necessary.’ . es

affect our day-to-day lives:

predictions) at least have a.

side-effects. 7 Xe a

Even that: ee we

: “ohloia oe

_ Like: other priests down »
oe . the: ages; today's.expert has °
De “a an-‘unswerving. faith in his.
The” list: + of” ‘Temons own cause. He. is sincerely.
assiduously . cultivated by convinced that he is right. .
such experts ¢an be con-. “and that all who disagree “f\..
tinued almost _indefinitely. with him are wrong. He sees . [25
Similar lemon-growers it as his mission to ‘convert [|
abound, too, in a couple of the remainder. ‘of erring
other areas which directly humanity to his faith or, ina
° growing number of cases, to
impose his faith on erring
humanity. willy-nilly.

economic ‘forecasting and -
government planning.

Faith and works are the
two. essential’ ‘ingredients. of ©
_all- religions. Unfortunately,
in the new religion of the -
“experts, the works nowadays
often seem to be. falling far
short of the faith.

The economic. experts (if -
you can be bothered to study
their. constantly changing

= How's the fashio
How! 's the.value?... :
“Are you king

certain entertainment value
of the Punch and Judy type -
since no two economic
experts ever ‘agree and

nothing would ' be altered Skylabs, ‘Three Mile: Islands S

even if they did. ; and jet engines that drop‘off* —
. wings are. the kind of things
PRIESTHOOD that make the heathen

‘_ ,,, restless. “When - that. hap-.
~ Planning experts at our “pened in ‘days | gone by, you'll
various levels of government recall, :' the heathen had a.

ayer

Alderman

Doreen
Blackburn

If this site goes duplex, the
tried © un--

rest of Bay Street will too,

chamber spectators during
the early 6496 Bay Street
rezohing hearings came to a
quiet end Monday.

; Council gave two readings
to a bylaw. which would
allow the Horseshoe'Bay site
to be rezoned from single
family to duplex with the
provision that the siting and
design of the duplexes be
approved by the Advisory
Design Panel before third

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and final reading takes
£ o . place.
LG H U n d , y % Patrick Hampson, who

resigned as president of the
Horseshoe Bay Community
Association during the more

This further big jump was
made possible by a donation
of $5,800 from the medical
“staff,”“raised during their

| .The fund for the
renovation of the Children’s
Floor at Lions Gate Hospital

, _is within a: “mere $8, 000" of its™

emotional earlier period, a

. successfully to rally council

agajnst the rezoning, saying
that neighborhood residents
have asked repeatedly in the
past to have the site kept
single family.

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The developer, Martin
Kaffka, previously asked to
build a sports club on the site
but was turned down.

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