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Though meteorologists now know enough about tornadoes to predict with reasonable accuracy when they are likely to occur, they are powerless to prevent the deadly funnels from forming and cutting their swaths of destruction. Help may be on its way. A NASA scientist has conducted laboratory tests suggesting that tornadoes are electrically driven phenomena that can be dissipated simply by shorting them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meteorology: A Short Circuit for Tornadoes | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

...individual has a right to vote. At 6 p.m. a news bulletin declared Docking the Governor of Kansas. Do newsmen mean to tell me that this doesn't affect the voting? It would seem to me this is a great disservice to the electorate and grossly unfair. To predict a trend is one thing, but to come out and say there is a winner when all the polls aren't even closed is not freedom of reporting. It is license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 18, 1966 | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...relief of bankers and retailers, the so-called truth-in-lending and truth-in-packaging bills lost their champion in the defeat of Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas. The defeat of ten of the 24 Democrats on the House Agriculture Committee prompted American Farm Bureau President Charles Shuman to predict: "This should speed the day when the futile effort of the Government to manage and subsidize agriculture is ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Reaction: Favorable | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...professionals have noted this quickness. They will certainly be watching his performance this week. If Roosevelt takes anywhere near 20 per cent of the vote, as some of his aides predict, he will become an important contender for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in '70. Most of the present Democratic leaders have power over small areas, usually not more than a county, and though they may dream of advancement to higher office in the state ligislature, there is little chance of them entering a state-wide election. With a large number of votes from a state-wide electorate Roosevelt would have...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: New York's Three-Way Race For Governor: Vote Hinges on Rockefeller's Unpopularity | 11/8/1966 | See Source »

...state "from which it may never recover," pleaded before a Rotary Club meeting in the tobacco town of Douglas last month: "Which one is going to bring in industry? Who do you want going up to Washington representing you?" Whom Georgia's voters want seemed as hard to predict as a wishbone-pull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia: Different Bird | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

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