Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final vote had been tallied, 141 Democrats, 118 Republicans and one Independent (Ohio's Frazier Reams) were on record as favoring a $3,368,608,000 mutual-security program (only $109 million was cut from the original bill). Now the bill goes to the Senate, where the forecast is the same as it was in the House: trouble...
...postponed a day, and now there seemed no choice but to delay for another fortnight, at least, until the tides were right again. Heavyhearted, Ike splashed through the rain to a fateful 4 a.m. meeting with his meteorologists and top commanders. An agonizing choice was posed by the latest forecast: a brief break in the storm, perhaps 24 hours...
...while Nicaragua and Costa Rica sounded out the South Americans on collective action. But Senate Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson hinted at what might come when he told a Texas audience last week that economic sanctions against Guatemala are under consideration. In an ominously vague phrase Secretary John Foster Dulles forecast collective action-"if circumstances permit...
Televisionaries confidently forecast the day when every home will have its private network (so mother can keep track of the kids) and telephones will come equipped with TV screens. But there is a chill in the air: in that event, would Big Brother and his thought-controlling telescreen be far behind? Active as peeping TV is today, Big Brother is still a kid brother...
...trend continues, predicts Gorton, the Arctic Ocean will eventually lose its permanent ice, freezing only in winter; at that point, none of the ice will reach the hard-core polar stage. The Navy's tentative long-range forecast: "Great changes in climate will take place. This change . . . may foreshadow the end of the current ice age, but no timetable is set for this development...