Word: forecaster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE has not been a topic for such worried conversation since James Baldwin forecast the fire next time. Suburban matrons predict the melting of the polar icecaps followed by catastrophic floods. Busy executives and bearded hippies discuss the presence of DDT in the flesh of Antarctic penguins. All sorts of Americans utter new words like ecosystem and eutrophication. Pollution may soon replace the Viet Nam war as the nation's major issue of protest...
...after authorities on rocketry, called upon to advise the Government and writing book after book (Satellites, Rockets and Outer Space, Rockets, Missiles and Men in Space). His death came on the eve of man's scheduled landing on the moon just a year shy of the date he forecast more than 20 years...
Late polls forecast a slipping trend for Poher (the last ceded him 25%, v. 37% at his high point), but they certainly did not suggest that he would almost drop to third. They did indicate that France was taking a careful second look at the mild-mannered grandfather who appeared out of nowhere to unseat De Gaulle-and on reappraisal was having some doubts. What appeared at first as Poher's quiet strengths later turned out to be exasperating quirks. The man who refused to grandstand from his temporary quarters at the Elysée also refused...
...company denies the charges and disputes the size of the overrun. Its spokesmen say that $500 million of the extra expenses can be blamed on runaway inflation and Viet Nam dislocations, which could not have been accurately forecast when the contracts were signed in 1965. Not counting inflation, they claim that the actual overrun is an "extremely good" 10%. The plane itself has performed so well that, according to the company, Lockheed may collect a $22 million incentive bonus from the Air Force...
Although astronomers admit that they are still novices at short-range solar prediction, they can issue one long-range forecast with some certainty. About 5 billion years from now, they calculate, the sun will have used up the hydrogen fuel in its core. It will then begin burning hydrogen in its outer layers and gradually expand-perhaps to 100 times its present size-turning into a giant red globe that will fill most of the sky when seen from earth. Unfortunately, man will not be around to see this spectacular view. The expanding sun will boil away the oceans, melt...