Word: portents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brenninkmeyers bought an interest of roughly 47% in the chain last year, have an agreement to buy the remaining shares from Founder and Chairman Nathan Ohrbach when he decides to retire; Ohr-bach is vigorous and determined to stay on, but he is also 77. Fortnight ago, in a portent of things to come, Elmar Brenninkmeyer, 39, took over as president of the U.S. chain, replacing Nathan Ohrbach's son Jerome, whose big stock holdings in other companies (Polaroid, American Hardware) seem to interest him more than retailing...
After twelve years of arduous research and writing, James completed The Principles of Psychology in 1890. The work was at once a grand summation of previous developments and and a portent of the paths psychology would take in the twentieth century. Glimmerings of every major psychological movement of the last 70 years appear in the book. Moreover, a direct line of influence is traceable in many instances...
Democratic enthusiasts claimed victory -they called it "commanding," "massive," "smashing" and "a landslide." Some landslide. In arithmetical terms, the off-year elections of 1962 were almost a standoff. And in their portent to U.S. politics for the next two years, they meant difficult legislative going for the Democratic Kennedy Administration and the possibility of real trouble in 1964. The overall results...
German developers are scouting emptier Eldorados as far afield as Lebanon and Iran. However, some experts think the boom is already losing steam. One portent is that some of the most fashionable Germans are rediscovering West Germany. Areas such as the Black Forest and Bavaria, they report, are not only beautiful and easy to reach, but have one unique advantage over almost any other vacation spots in Europe: few Germans go there...
Most encouraging portent so far is that in the Algerian bled (the hinterland), where 7,000,000 of the country's 9,000,000 Moslems live, the vast majority are cooperating peacefully with the French army and their own leaders to prepare for independence. At Rhoufi, only a few miles from the spot where the Algerian rebellion broke out seven years ago, a veteran French administrator declared last week: "It's almost too good to be true...