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...captain Green is hesitant about making a specific prediction for the season. "Generally we're an inexperienced team," he said. "On paper there is not reason to predict we'll do especially well. We are capable of beating teams like Brown and Cornell, although if we did, it would be an upset...
Observers here are rating the race a toss up between Humphrey, Muskie and McGovern. Because he may be helped by Republican cross-over votes, George Wallace's performance is impossible to predict...
Just as poetry can predict suicide, so it can also provoke it. That, says Psychiatrist Jack Leedy, president of the Association for Poetry Therapy, is one danger of the method in unskilled hands. Reading somber verses with upbeat endings can help unhappy patients by demonstrating that "others have been depressed and have recovered," but despairing poems may deepen the feelings of hopelessness. Psychiatrist Rothenberg cites another danger: poetry used only to get rid of intense feelings can keep a patient from understanding and resolving his conflicts. "Poetry by itself does not cure," he warns. But used by properly trained therapists...
Judging from a comparison of times, Yale has too much depth and individual talent to predict a Crimson win, but anything can happen in a traditional rivalry such as this one. The Harvard swimmers will have to come up with their best performances to win more than a handful of races because Yale has better recorded times in every event except the 1000-yd., 200-yd. and 500-yd. free...
...rates, infiltration rates, chieu hoi (defection) rates, hamlet pacification categories and voting turnouts. These figures may be reasonably accurate but they are also often irrelevant to the conclusions which they are adduced to support. At times key figures in the Administration have made statements which at least seemed to predict the imminent collapse of the Viet Cong. The misplaced moralism of the critics has thus confronted the unwarranted optimism of the advocates...