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...Soviet leaders are losing friends and influencing nobody. The whole thing has its funny side. But it is too important to dismiss with a smile. Anyone who really knows the British could have foretold some surprises...
Haruspices, the reporters soon found out, were diviners, usually Etruscans, who deduced the will of the gods and foretold the future chiefly by examining the entrails of sacrificed animals, from birds to bulls. With a word, Speaker Heck had at last aroused public interest in the $127 million error of Haruspex Harriman...
...found in the canonical books of the New Testament, but in the apocryphal Lost Gospels. The Golden Legend of Jacques de Voragines and other pious legends are filled with detail that Author Keyes draws on. St. Anne's birth, according to these accounts, was miraculously foretold to her mother and father, called by some Mathan and Maria; upon their couch appeared the Hebrew word Anna (grace) written in gold letters. She grew up and married a young man known as Joachim, whose name had an equally propitious meaning-"Preparation for the Saviour." Legend tells how Joachim was rebuked...
...state motorists can no longer hide behind their plates, warned Pyne. He foretold "severe action within the week" against unregistered out-of-stators, now possible through a new clearing-house system which pinpoints owners with heretofore impossible speed...
...Wall Street been so full of bears as it was last week, after the stock market had been pounded by its second week of sharp price drops. Some of the bears were old familiar fellows, such as Broker John H. Lewis, one of the few prophets who correctly foretold the onset of the 1946 bear market (which lasted until 1949), and who has been growling gloomily ever since. But there were also plenty of ex-bulls behind the trees. Everybody was asking: Has the great, postwar bull market finally come...