Word: forecaster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know that when all is said and done, the ultimate decisions about the future of the economy will be made by the U.S. consumer. And the men who know best what the consumer is likely to do are Jack Straus and the nation's other merchants. They generally forecast that an average U.S. family of four, which spent an average $8,320 last year, will spend about $8,650 this year. The brisk increase in consumer demand should go far toward bringing about what Washington foresees as a 6% gain in both corporate profits and the gross national product...
PROJECTION '65 (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). NBC News's annual forecast of world events...
Just what wonders Du Pont will uncork next is hard to forecast, if only because the company's compass is so wide. Du Pont's chemists-like their colleagues throughout the chemical industry-never stop asking questions: How can electricity be transmitted without causing heat, what makes plants flower when and how they do, what are some new commercial possibilities of magnetism? Along the way, the perpetual search produces so many new products and processes that Du Pont is hard-pressed to find names for all of them, has called upon a computer to assemble 153,000 possible...
...forecast "a period of difficult transition ahead as women break free from masculine domination and develop a new view of themselves...
...Dead Man's Gulch." But the Cards had something going for them, too: a retired stripper in Venice, Fla., named Fifi LaTour, who had been sending them postcards all season long predicting that they would win the pennant. Now Fifi was phoning in her World Series forecast. "She says we won't come back from New York," exulted a Cardinal. "She says we'll win it there...