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...higher than in the previous March, and was actually rising in the worst-hit northern areas. Another rally next day by some 5,000 teachers demanding a wage raise showed that disenchantment with Harold Macmillan's Conservative government is even more widespread. It was far too early to predict the impact of all this on the coming elections, which will probably take place next year. But Macmillan hardly welcomed the demonstrations on top of all the other recent bad news: three by-election reverses in a fortnight, and a new Gallup poll report on voter preference showing that...
...realize that the question is by no means an abstraction. Under certain conditions, racial violence in the South (and North) will certainly occur. In some Southern towns, and in parts of Northern cities, those conditions are probably developing right now. Some people have been rash enough to predict that if the situation does not change within the next year the first white men will be killed, in self-defense, by Negroes specifically seeking to gain fuller civil rights...
...Harlem project is an independent venture and has no connection with the National Service Corps. Observers predict, however, that the public controversy will have adverse effects on the Service Corps legislation...
...Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs meets tonight to elect officers for the coming year. Most observers agree the session will be long, and many predict a heated contest for chairman...
Pingree, sitting on a small pile of the books which take up most of the space in his room, outlined the history of reading the future in the stars. This pseudo-science, he explained, began about 4,000 years ago in Babylonia, where it was used to predict such things as floods, wars, famine, and the fates of kings. Eventually astrology reached Greece and India, and later began to flourish in Egypt. Around 300 B.C. complicated systems of epicycles and eccentrics were devised to explain and predict accurately the motions of the planets. At the same time, the horoscopic skills...