Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Although UNIVAC's early predictions gave the Democrats a greater margin in the Senate than he or anyone else found reasonable as the night wore on, his basic forecast that the Democrats would control both Houses of Congress stood up. UNIVAC stuck to his guns on this, while newspaper editions and human analysts switched back and forth with every new return . . . We learn something each time, and hope that by 1956 UNIVAC's performance will be even more accurate...
...Senate session to confirm the President's pending appointments, two to the Atomic Energy Commission and another to the Supreme Court; 2) To give a "quiet burial" to the Dixon-Yates private power contract, which the Democrats have made a partisan issue. The point is, as the President forecast, that if the Democrats were invested with responsibility for the 84th Congress, they would put their partisan considerations foremost. It is only because the Senate returned before Jan. 3, 1955 that the process has begun so early...
...wards, and to lift the most depressed out of their lethargy, thus making both types more responsive to psychiatric treatment. Three California doctors used such words as "dramatic" and "incredible" to describe the improvement wrought by reserpine* in 80% of the 74 patients on whom they tried it. They forecast in the A.M.A. Journal: "If . . . long-term studies substantially confirm these preliminary findings, reserpine will be the most important therapeutic development in the history of psychiatry...
HOUSE-BUILDING BOOM is still picking up speed. Housing starts in September were 20% above a year ago, and builders forecast a last-quarter record of 294,000 houses...
Frederick L. Holborn '49, tutor in Government, was awaiting final election returns last night to show the accuracy of his forecast of yesterday's mid-term contests...