Word: forecaster
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...metropolitan areas of the nation. In Suffolk County, New York, it is 50 months. In the Circuit Court of Cook County, serving Chicago, it is 64 months plus. The clerk of the Suffolk Superior Court in Massachusetts, where the present delay in such civil cases is almost four years, forecast in early December 1967 that it will soon increase to five years. In New York City, as of June 30, 1967, there were 26,397 civil trial cases, most involving personal injury suits according to the New York Times, awaiting action in the State Supreme Court. This led to intolerable...
...history of the ecumenical movement." That it will be: the 1,330 clerics and laymen who are expected to attend include delegates from the council's 232 member denominations, as well as 15 official Roman Catholic observers. Privately, however, many council officials agree with the concerned forecast made by retired General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft that "confusion reigns supreme-politically, theologically, socially...
Such extreme styles may never attract more than a very special audience. Ever since the demise of the grey flannel suit in the early 1950s, a revolution in menswear has been forecast as regularly as the lifetime light bulb or a new Nixon. Until lately, men's fashion changes have added up to little more than slimmer trousers, side vents, a return of the shaped, double-breasted suit, and frilled shirts-worn mainly by actors. Lately, however, there have been signs of a real change in attitude...
...presidency, when Berlin, Cuba and Laos loomed as the most menacing trouble spots for the U.S., Galbraith was counseling against the dispatch of even a few American combat troops to South Viet Nam. "A few," he advised Kennedy in 1962, "will mean more and more and more." His forecast proved flawless. From 773 advisers at the start of the decade, the U.S. force grew to more than 16,000 under Kennedy and half a million under Lyndon Johnson today. The war that they are fighting, cries Galbraith, is "perhaps the worst miscalculation in our history," and he sees the Viet...
...mercury plunged as low as -20 in suburban areas last night. Some letup is forecast for today, but more snow is expected Wednesday...