Word: foresight
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Hearts & Goofs. When it came to space work, McDonnell showed as much foresight as he did with jets. Correctly anticipating what was to come, Mr. Mac put 45 engineers to work on capsules months before the U.S.S.R.'s Sputnik started Washington on its race for the moon. With that much preparation, McDonnell easily won the competition to build the Mercury capsule. Then well-publicized goofs marred the early phases of the program; it was almost more than Perfectionist Mac could bear when NASA cameras detected a loose nut and a crumpled cigarette package during a zero-gravity test...
...letter says, "about whose purpose many are in doubt could produce an increased spirit of non-cooperation among those who have to bear its brunt. Such a reaction cannot be averted much longer by continuing the series of optimistic military forecasts that have undermined the reputations for foresight of high American officials over the past several years...
...beginning." He proposed that an international trusteeship be set up with a polyglot membership including French, Chinese, Russian, Philippine, U.S. and Indo-Chinese representatives, to prepare the country for independence. But the idea died with F.D.R. The French moved back into Indo-China, and with monumental lack of foresight, immediately reimposed the same old colonial order. Thus was the stage set for Dien-bienphu, partition and the present war. Historian Schlesinger concedes with disarming candor that history is a terribly "tricky" tool for predicting the future. In the long run, he writes, history "can answer questions, after a fashion...
...this year's Miss World competition didn't promise to be much more ladylike. When the winner was finally chosen in London's Lyceum Ballroom, green-eyed Miss Malta shrieked: "The judges must be blind!" Not at all, though they did show a certain lack of foresight in picking Miss India, Bombay Medical Student Reita Faria, 23. The new Miss World isn't especially interested in the title. Collecting her $7,000 prize money, she waved away the usual lucrative year of personal-appearance and film offers, prepared to rush home instead to finish her studies...
...started the year at an all-time popularity low that gave him scant hope of winning a third term. Throughout a hard, costly campaign, he has narrowed the gap and, toward campaign's end, was hammering at Democrat Frank O'Connor's "demagogy," lack of courage, foresight and "size.'" New York City Council President O'Connor, who is conspicuously short of personal dynamism, effective organization and cash, accused Rockefeller of a "shabby attempt to mislead the people" and exhumed a four-year-old scandal in the state administration. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., a Democrat running...