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Colin Kerr drove his limousine to the Harvard Crimson yesterday and announced that, with the help of his $15 million Indian mynah bird, he could predict the winner of the Harvard-Dartmouth game...
When the field, narrows down to two, race is sure to become an issue. Though King may be leading in the polls against a large field, analysts predict the either Flynn or Finnegan would be favored over a Black candidate. And the high level of the campaign so far will most likely erode two candidates find themselves in the homestretch...
...currency. Most insist that the dollar is unlikely to fall much any time soon. Data Resources' Eckstein expects the dollar to drop at an annual rate of 3% to 4% over the next several years. "Those are small changes," he says. But a few economists predict that the U.S. currency could fall just as rapidly as it has risen. Stephen Maris, former chief economic adviser to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, warns that when the dollar does drop, it may come crashing down. He believes that the huge American balance of payments deficits could lead...
...button. Hitler's extravagant madness broke over Europe in a dark wave. He began with Poland at the end of the summer of 1939. As usually happens with history in the process of occurring, it was sometimes difficult for the world to weigh Hitler, to judge him, to predict him, to know his ambition or his lunacy. He was a perfect phenomenon of the age of Einstein, in which seemingly infinitesimal causes can produce spectacular effects: cataclysms. Hitler was an atom, a nonentity convinced he could conquer the world. But the very madness of Hitler's enterprise made...
...consumer tax that gave a mighty push to the overlapping forces of inflation and unemployment that have plagued the industrial nations ever since. It is too early to know precisely what story will one day symbolize the transition from that period to whatever comes next. It is safe to predict, though, that the story will rate front-page headlines in newspapers and cover billing in magazines...