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         4/1/80   11:38 pm     tripp / udperuse / unidel
future/unidel 3/14/80  8:32 am graper/udperuse/unidel
Dear Adam:

        I guess we should think about something.  Think 
about this though:  When my dad was in the Navy (an admiral,
of course) all the men on the ship where he lived had to
go to these "entertainment" bonanzas on the stern end of 
the deck on Saturday nights for fun.  Actually, they didn't
have____ to go but their only choice was that or staring out
at the Atlantic Ocean so they'd go and one week they had a
speaker come who spoke to them on the future before they got
to see a movie.  Naturally they were impatient for the
bastard to finish but my dad (who ran the projector) was 
interested.  By dad's description, it went like this:
 
        ". . .and let me tell you, men, the future holds 
bright, bright hope.  In 1970, everyone will have their
own airplane and people can live in New York and commute
to work in California.  These airplanes will combine the
best of automobiles and airplanes and will have a steering
wheel with all the controls in the center of the wheel.  And

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               *** A Story by Dr. Graper ***
 
         4/1/80   11:39 pm     tripp / udperuse / unidel
in the 1970's, there will only be four day work weeks of
6 hour days.  Things like this war (Korean War) will be a
thing of the past since there will be a world government and
people will be able to vacation in Moscow or Peking just 
like vacationing in Florida today.  And everybody will live
much longer, maybe 100 years, since there will be cures for
almost every disease by then.  With the new world government
everyone in the world will speak Esperanto~ and everything
written and spoken will be understood by everyone."
 
        Needless to say, my father always points out, none
of it ever came true.
 
                Your Friend,
                Dr. Graper
 
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         4/10/80   5:24 pm     hedley davis / udauth / unidel
 
 
                        Yes,
                But look what did become true.
                ( or, perhaps I should say 'who'. )