Word: prediction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since world conditions change so rapidly, no one can predict what type of anti-subversive law will be needed in two years. A terminal date would force Congress to re-examine laws enacted in the middle of a storm that may well have passed...
Boston and its environs are virtually saturated with television sets at the moment. Virtually every local alumnus can afford a television set. Most of them have afforded one. What this will do to attendance is hard to predict, and the HAA will not know much more than it does after only one local telecast. Such problems as comparative records and the weather will make comparative statistics...
...catalogue the cast and the woes of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? further would be meaningless and brutal. It would be dangerous to predict that the play will draw no audiences on Broadway, but it certainly will not be spoiled by success. There is noting to spoil...
...back for everyone, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson returned from a 16-day tour of Europe last week to defend his conduct of office. He was the storm center of a mounting uproar from the farmlands that worried the Republicans and encouraged the Democrats to predict a "green uprising" in their favor in next year's elections. Minnesota's Democratic Governor Orville Freeman struck his party's keynote when he said that the Eisenhower Administration considered farming to be a stepchild of little importance in an otherwise prosperous economy...
Gentler Triggers. Although Bhabha was the first topflight scientist to predict the coming of H-power, the prospect has intrigued his brethren everywhere (TIME, July 25). Present atomic reactors all use the fission process: splitting nuclei of the heavier atoms, e.g., uranium or plutonium, to produce a controllable reaction. But fusion, used solely in the H-bomb, involves binding the nuclei of far more plentiful, lighter atoms (deuterium, lithium, etc.) under tremendous heat to produce an explosion...