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Committee that must consider Weaver's nomination, voted against Weaver's appointment even to the HHFA five years ago. Now Robertson-and others-predict easy confirmation for Weaver. "I thought he was going to be prejudiced," says Robertson. "But I have seen no evidence of prejudice...
...Little Bit Sensitive. The questioning continued. Could the President predict when Congress would adjourn? "I never have done that," said Johnson. "I came here 35 years ago, and the first thing I learned was never to predict when they would adjourn." Then, without any excuse, he resumed his little lecture to the press. He does "get a little bit sensitive," he said, when he sees presidential decisions reported that he never heard of. There was a U.P.I. item he had seen that very morning telling "how I eliminated the Redwood Forest bill from the State of the Union Message...
...meet legal requirements that it be selfsupporting, tried to head off a strike, got a court order on Dec. 30 asking the T.W.U. to show cause why it should not be enjoined from striking. Mike Quill ripped the court papers to pieces before the TV cameras. Cried he: "I predict that we are in for a terrible strike." Lindsay had no legal rights to enter the conflict until his inauguration, but once the transit workers walked off the job on New Year's morning, the strike became his problem; his administration would ultimately have to bankroll the Transit Authority...
...predict with certainty what will occur when 40 Eridani-A moves in front of X, but the distant event will give scientists a rare opportunity to test an equally far-out and still unproven deduction from Albert Einstein's theories of relativity. Instead of simply blocking the light from a distant star that it is eclipsing, Einstein predicted, the nearer star would create a lens-like effect that would actually intensify the image of the eclipsed star, increasing its brightness perhaps more than 1,000 times. The phenomenon would be caused by the closer star's strong gravitational...
When he provided the original funds, the donor had a specific idea in mind. "He wanted to see if we could discover some quality that all these boys possessed, say at age ten, and thus be able to predict greatness from boys in Harlem at that age," Briggs explains. Only one consistent quality, difficult to predict, was found. "At some point in their boyhoods," says Briggs, "some thoughtful, sensitive adult came in contact with these boys and made a deep impression on them. In some cases, it was a neighbor, in others a priest, or perhaps a YMCA leader...