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...phone calls, rounding up new pledges and fencing in old ones. As Mondale waded about soggy New Jersey, his campaign won the backing of two Governors (Mark White of Texas and William Sheffield of Alaska), nine uncommitted delegates in Mississippi and six in Hawaii. Mondale's aides predict he will have 1,750 of the 1,967 delegates needed to nominate before the voters go to the polls on Tuesday...
...much of A T & T's long-distance business can the new companies capture? Competitors predict that they could get 20% to 30%. The more likely share will be no more than 10% during the next year or two. Many consumers are as comfortable with their Ma Bell as they were with their Ma, and they will be slow to change...
...measure the health of the U.S. economy, suggested by the late economist Arthur Okun, is the discomfort index, a sum of the unemployment and inflation rates. In November 1980, that yardstick stood at 20.2% (12.7% inflation and 7.5% unemployment). On Election Day this year, TIME'S economists predict, the discomfort index will be only 12.7% (5.4% inflation and 7.3% unemployment...
...just before 4 a.m. on June 5,1944, and the rain slashed at them "in horizontal streaks," Dwight Eisenhower recalled later. The commanders of Operation Overlord were gathering around the fireplace in the library of Southwick House, outside Portsmouth, to hear a Scottish group captain named J.M. Stagg predict the next day's weather. On the basis of Stagg's calculations, Eisenhower would have to decide whether to give the attack order to the nearly 3 million troops assembled in southern Britain for the greatest seaborne invasion in history, the assault on Hitler's Atlantic Wall...
...balance changes in the dark of some night in these next months, then every goof he has ever made, every policy that has failed, every miniscandal he has brushed against and even his beguiling smile will become objects of loathing. It could happen. It is almost impossible to predict when the public will decide that a President is more loser than winner. But the people let the White House know in a hurry when they make up their minds. It was some time in 1966 that Lyndon Johnson got the word that the Viet Nam War outweighed his Great Society...