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Relief Pitcher Dick Hall is an amateur mathematician who on drizzly afternoons amuses himself trying to predict whether a game will be called off -by calculating the number of raindrops falling per second on one square foot of the field. Rightfielder Frank Robinson used to be known as "the meanest man in the National League," before he was traded to the Orioles by the Cincinnati Reds last winter. Now he is the meanest man in both leagues -with the possible exception of Baltimore Manager Hank Bauer (TIME cover, Sept...
SLAC's director, Stanford Physicist Wolfgang Panofsky, 47, a refugee from Nazi Germany, grants that he is unable to predict what applications-if any-its discoveries will have, and he frankly admits that he is the proud boss of "the world's largest impractical machine...
...example, last year, when he was on a sabbatical from the University, he spent a substantial amount of his time (but less than half) in Washington. He is known to be working currently on an important Administration project to predict patterns of international relations into the next decade...
...impossible to predict what will happen between now and November in Vietnam, but whatever does happen will affect the results of the 1966 congressional elections. The Vietnamese--Catholics, Buddhists, or Viet Cong, General Ky or Ho Chi Minh--are hardly likely to stand still for the next few months and wait for the election returns. It seems safe only to say that the U.S. will not have gained either victory or peace by the time the electorate speaks in November...
What will come of it all? Europeans sense a major breakthrough in the offing, one that will eventually result in freer movement and new alignments, a Europe that despite proliferating nationalism could, for the first time since 1939, become one continent again. No one was ready to predict when the new Europe will come. Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle, 75, arriving in Moscow to rebuild the "proud tower" of European nationalism from the Atlantic to the Urals, was doing what he could to quicken the pace...