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...fall of 1960 he filed an exclusive dispatch from Havana to his newspaper, Baltimore's Afro American. Worthy revealed that the Cuban government had knowledge of an impending invasion of their country that was being formulated in Florida and the Carribean. A deaf America ignored this report which foretold, months in advance, the inevitable failure of what has since become known as the "Bay of Pigs" fiasco...
...Ithacans looked like lions going into the match, with three 14-13 victories over Yale, Penn and Princeton under their belts. But as foretold by their 14-13 loss to MIT--a team the Crimson easily handled--they turned out to be only paper tigers...
...Jupiter, which astrologers of the period considered both a royal star and a lucky one, first moved close in the sky to Saturn, which was believed to influence the destiny of the Jews. Even more significant, this conjunction occurred in the constellation Pisces, where celestial events traditionally foretold incidents of great importance to Israel. In September of that year, Jupiter again closed in on Saturn...
...better showing than in July, when the deficit was $69.4 million greater. In fact, the nation's balance of trade has been unfavorable ever month this year except May, and the total 1976 trade deficit could reach $1 billion-at least $1 billion more than Government economists had foretold...
Print journalists used to pride themselves on reporting the sober but important convention decisions that the restless television cameras ignored. They found precious little to pick over this time, when primaries and advance delegate counts had correctly foretold the results, and conventions served largely to ratify the relative strengths of rival factions. As Ken Galbraith looked lankily down on the serried ranks of pressmen, few of them even taking notes, he wondered aloud how any free-enterprising businessman would regard all that time and money spent for so little result...