Word: forecaster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been voluble, Canadian-born Pierre Rinfret, 44. Rinfret, according to his own associates, never did "exhibit a large aura of humbleness." Nor did that aura grow after President Johnson, during a 1964 TV address, called him "a leading industrial economist" and reeled off figures from a bullish Rinfret forecast. Since last summer, Rinfret has been on the side of the bears, predicting a "mild recession" with no upturn in sight until at least the fourth quarter...
...turned away critics with soft answers, explained once more his decision to continue bombing the North (see box next page). The President was confident but cautious. While he could "no longer see any possibility of military victory on the part of North Viet Nam," neither could he forecast a quick or easy victory for the Allies...
...Bird forecasting has now been established permanently at Cold Lake, and is being tried experimentally at bases in Toronto and London, Ont. Before long, Kuhring hopes, Canada will be equipped with a coast-to-coast network of forecast stations that can follow and predict the routes of flocks all the way from their nesting grounds in the North to the U.S. border, giving aircraft ample warning of the approach of the feathered hazard...
...improvement" in Britain's pound-threatening balance-of-payments deficit. Though the British ran a deficit for the whole of 1966 (probably between $420 million and $560 million), rising exports produced a balance-of-payments surplus during the final three months of the year. This year, says a forecast from London's National Institute for Economic and Social Research, Britain should show an impressive $490 million surplus, its first since...
...those frogs. A man will "not "brazenly go out and propagate himself," Bonner predicts coolly, but will contribute sperm cells to a central bank, his heirs to be manufactured after his death if a committee decides that he has been a desirable and useful figure in society. On this forecast, echoing the ancient complaint against Plato's "Guardians," English Professor Ritchie Calder comments...