Word: forecaster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Countless times, the 87th seemed about to draw its last breath. At one point Senate Whip Hubert Humphrey definitely predicted a midweek adjournment. But Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield knew better. Asked about Humphrey's forecast, he simply sighed: "What week?" A newsman suggested to Mansfield that in Election Year 1962. a lot of members of Congress were by now praying for adjournment. Retorted Mansfield: "If I pray any more, I'm going to have housemaid's knee...
...that Estes would only take the Fifth Amendment, had no immediate plans for calling Billie Sol. Still, with Senator John McClellan preparing to hold hearings, two grand juries at work in Texas, and 76 FBI agents on the prowl, there seemed every reason to agree with Fountain's forecast: "I think Mr. Estes is likely to find a place in history as one of the most, if not the most, thoroughly investigated individuals of all time...
...Francisco Chronicle splashed the story on Page One-but gave it second play to another ripple in the crime wave that the Chronicle helped create last month (TIME, May 25). The Atlanta Journal smugly pretended it had known all along: "This sell-off had been forecast and foreseen by the smart boys for a long time." (If so, the Journal had not been listening.) Even the Wall Street Journal, which had been onto the story all along, chose to adorn its front page, the day after the dive, with a chart showing that sales of pleasure craft were sinking...
...Ford Committee Report of 1960 reveals that in the Class of '62, the private school group scored much lower in general than the public school group in the Predicted Rank List ratings, which use College Boards and rank-in-class to forecast Harvard performance. The public school students were predicted to place 34 per cent of their numbers in the top quarter, and 13 per cent in the bottom quarter of the class. The corresponding figures for the private school group were 12 and 39 per cent...
...enthusiasm for the Bill, the President is in the great tradition of the Anti-Corn Law League, granddaddy of all Free Trade movements; its members used to insist that there were passages in the Bible which forecast the advent of Free Trade. (This passage, from Exodus, was especially popular: "Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt; get you down thither, and buy for us from them, that we may live...