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...refine the technique of voting--of prime importance in any serious attempt at democratic procedure--would have been a simple task for a Council so inclined. Providing ballots, for example, for the seventy Varsity Club diners required little more than foresight. There were none at the Club Thursday. Simple planning would have made it possible for inter-House guests to vote. And to eliminate the advantages gained by certain candidates through alphabetical position on the ballot, the Council would merely have had to restore the old device, comprehensible to even the novice printer, of dividing top-of-the-list honors...
...vast and obvious failure of foresight is [that] Brave New World contains no reference to nuclear fission. . . . The next phase may be atomic warfare . . . but it is conceivable that we have enough sense [to confine ourselves] to a period, not indeed of peace, but of . . . only partially ruinous warfare. . . . During that period the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must...
...Taylor set out to get it. To open the Met's Diamond Jubilee building campaign (the Museum will be 75 next February), Taylor persuaded General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower to come to Manhattan to receive an honorary life fellowship in the Museum, because "through [his] wisdom and foresight many irreplaceable art treasures were saved...
...Lockheed is well aware that if its foresight had not been generously mixed with luck, i.e., having the Constellation and P-80 Shooting Star in production at war's end, it would not be sitting on top of the heap now. But Bob Gross sees no reason why it should not stay there. Net profits last year were some $4,500,000, and he expects, barring some calamity, that they may run as high this year from Constellations, P-80 Shooting Stars and planes for the Navy...
...which President Truman gave him a third Distinguished Service Medal, citing him for "extraordinary foresight, sound judgment, brilliant strategic genius...