Word: prediction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...inventories. In the 1949 recession businessmen continued to liquidate inventories for more than a year, in 1953-54 for 15 months, before any sizeable upturn took place. This time the rate of inventory liquidation seems to be bottoming out after two quarters, though no one is willing to predict any heavy accumulation in the near future. Business outlays for new plant and equipment are a more worrisome problem. The 1958 slide in expansion expenditures has already gone on for three quarters and may continue for possibly another year, thus holding the general economy down...