Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Meteorologists and entomologists constantly check their maps to decide whether a sighted swarm is likely to prove dangerous. Trouble is that few of the 300 weather stations spread from Spain to India are in the uninhabited desert, where locusts get their start. Until recently, it was often impossible to predict the behavior of a swarm that had been spotted in one of those empty places...
...today's locust fighters have a new and glamorous aid. U.S. Tiros weather satellites have proved to be reliable anti-locust spies. To cryptic reparts from wandering Bedouins, Tiros has added observations made while circling on its high orbit. Its cloud pictures predict locust-bearing winds, and prompt warnings can be drafted. Thanks to U.S. spacemen, African locust invasions no longer come as unpleasant surprises. Threatened countries can now count on time enough to organize a chemical counterattack...
...Glueck's most famous work, Unravelling Juvenile Delinquency, they established a Social Prediction Table in order to predict which youngsters will become delinquents. Validations of this table are expected to be published this summer. In later studies, especially those which were follow-ups of the cases in Unraveling, the Gluecks pinpointed several family and environmental factors which distinguished those boys liable to get into trouble...
...Most of our boys are used to walking uphill," he said, "and I'm afraid the level ground might confuse us." He refused to predict how many of the three would complete the full 55 miles...
...first time in years, an air of real optimism hung over the Olympic trials. Seven times last year. U.S. skiers beat Europe's best. And this year, their performance at Sun Valley and Mount Alyeska was so good that U.S. Olympic Coach Bob Beattie could predict: ''We've got a half-dozen skiers who can win at Innsbruck.'' Beattie's best...