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Forecasting is an art that still has few textbooks. Its basic tool is extrapolation from yesterday and today. As John McHale, executive director of World Resources Inventory, puts it: "The future of the future is in the present." Some other methods seem fairly arcane. Defense Expert Herman Kahn, for instance, uses "scenario writing," in which various alternative future situations are dramatized. Some forecasters use computers to produce a symbolic "model" of particular social or economic structures-including whole industries or nations-and then simulate the interaction of variables. Rand uses the "Delphi" method, in which a wide range of experts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE FUTURISTS: Looking Toward A.D. 2000 | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

...William C. Bartholomay, John J. McHale, Thomas A. Reynolds Jr., John J. Louis Jr., Delbert W. Coleman, James B. McCahey Jr., Daniel C. Searle and Louis R. Perini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contracts: Wail of Two Cities | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

...will on Jan. 30 add another MCA show called Big Three Golf, a weekly continuing match between Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player. MCA also presents Jack Benny, Alfred Hitchcock, Wagon Train, The Kraft Suspense Theater, Broadside, 90 Bristol Court and McHale's Navy. At least 22 TV programs are now being shot on the Universal lot. Nor has all this activity crowded out the company's commitments to theatrical motion pictures. On the contrary, TV takes care of the overhead and expands the budgetary possibilities for big films. In its short existence as a major producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: A New Kind of King | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

Divorced. By Ethel Merman, 55, klaxon-voiced musicomedienne (Gypsy): Ernest Borgnine, 47, dough-faced TV and screen star (McHale's Navy, Marty), her fourth husband, whom she married June 27 declaring "I've never been in love, really in love, before"; on grounds of extreme mental cruelty (she complained that Ernie refused to fire his 60-year-old maid, saying, "If you don't like my mode of living, you can lump it"); in Santa Monica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 27, 1964 | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...McHale's Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: NIELSEN'S TOP 40 | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

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