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...attack dampened optimism about the growing air and sea supply line to Quemoy. Success in resupplying the artillery-blockaded island and the promise of bigger supply efforts had prompted American officials to predict yesterday that Quemoy could hold out at the present level of supply runs...
BEFORE dawn one day last week, Robert W. Glasgow of TIME'S Los Angeles bureau climbed into a red and white campaign plane piloted by Arizona's Republican Senator Barry M. Goldwater, gulped and recalled one observer's prediction that "one day Goldwater's going to be scraped from a mountainside.'' After a series of landings and take-offs from desert airstrips, Glasgow? was ready to predict long life for the candidate. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS. Personality Contest...
...predict that history will find the abstract expressionists as dated as the fur-lined teacup...
...some people survive personality blows without getting sick. But theoretically, health depends largely on keeping the ego intact. If it does, then a blueprint analysis of a patient's personality may become as useful in preventive medicine as the X ray. Says Schmale: "It may be possible to predict the specific circumstances under which the patient will become sick...
...Must Be Patient." Though united on the surface, the new government is full of contradictions-a revolutionary junta of old-fashioned politicos and new young Nasserite soldiers whose direction no one can yet predict. The new Ministers of Finance and "Guidance" (propaganda), among others, once resigned from Parliament over the government's refusal to nationalize the oil industry. But the rebels seem content for the moment to keep old contracts and, in time, to negotiate (as Nuri wanted to do) for a higher share of the royalties...