Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the sixth of the scientific series on the University's new chief executive. Taylor explains his forecast in the following terms...
...compare with it-a Spanish bullfight, where half a dozen men stick sharp knives into the bull to enrage him before the matador, or in this case, the committee chairman, closes in for the kill. By observing the Jenner hearings, the technique for persecuting the teaching profession can be forecast. The plan is to expose a few teachers who look suspicious and may even be guilty of Communist affiliations. Then, with the support of an aroused public opinion behind them, our Congressional Inquisitors will attack any or all professors whose opinions they dislike...
Brownell's line on the delegates was so good that on two key roll calls his forecast was only two votes off. He had such confidence in his information that when one state delegation cast a vote he did not expect, Brownell, watching on television, told associates that the delegation must not have understood the question. In a few minutes, the delegation's chairman called Brownell's room to say that the question had been misunderstood and the vote would be corrected...
...best thing that ever happened to Kwame Nkrumah. It made him a martyr. The British sent out sound trucks to introduce the illiterate Gold Coasters to the intricacies of voting. They got a tremendous reception, especially when word got around that the trucks had a juju that could forecast betrothal dates for the village girls. But C.P.P. did even better. They provided the Gold Coasters with a slogan ("Free-DOM"), a salute (a raised forearm with all five fingers outspread to denote the Five Freedoms), and a vision of Utopia. They also had a hero: Nkrumah, "rotting in jail." Outside...
Although he said he was not attempting to forecast the future, Ruml expects America in 1960 to have a 39 hour average work week and a gross national product of $455 billion. This would present an increase of 60 percent over the corresponding figure...