Word: forecaster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know of the attack un til he heard the first bombs fall at 0755 hours on the morning of the 7th. "I thought it probably a maneuver, but rose and switched on the shortwave" to get the 8 o'clock news from Radio Tokyo. Twice during the weather forecast, the announcer reported "East wind, rain." That was the code signal indicating an attack against U.S. territory.* Yoshikawa immediately began burning his code books and other intelligence materials. When Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrived that day to pick him up for eventual repatriation, the only incriminating sign...
...robots is not yet at hand: as projectors of public opinion, humans unquestionably outperformed machines last week in predicting the close result of the presidential race. Three out of four pollsters picked Kennedy to win by narrow margins, while TV's electronic brains forecast a landslide Kennedy victory, offered odds ranging from 5 to 1 to infinity. Many a late-night returns watcher echoed Republican Campaign Manager Len Hall: "I think we should put all these machines in the junkpile...
...Kennedy and Nixon personalities, the uncertainty over whether Ike could transfer some of his popularity and prestige to Nixon, the reluctance of so many voters to reveal their choice-the pollsters qualified their predictions and wished that they could avoid any stand at all. But the likeliest forecast seemed to run from a close Nixon victory to a Kennedy electoral landslide...
Running the Gamut. That gloomy forecast deserved attention if only because "Sirius" is the nom de plume of Hubert Beuve-Méry-the editor of France's most respected daily. Beuve-Méry, 58, a grave, greying man with a permanently skeptical arch to his brow, has modeled Le Monde after his own image. Like its editor, Le Monde is more conservative than Catholic, more trenchant than traditional, more republican than radical, more pro-French than anti-American, more non-Communist than antiCommunist. At a time when much of the French press ranges from sycophantic toward...
...turned up slightly in recent weeks, and steelmen, who feel that things could hardly get any worse, now hope to operate at about 70% of capacity in the fourth quarter. Housing starts snapped back in August from their abnormally low July rate, and Housing Expert Miles L. Colean forecast this week that 1961 will be at least a 1,400,000-start year- second biggest year on record in terms of dollar value. New construction contracts have held up well, this summer advanced to their best level in a year. Federal and state spending is on the rise, and both...