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A presidential defeat, of course, usually sets off apocalyptic prediction about the doom of the losing party. Forecasting the demise of the G.O.P., which has been in the minority in nearly all the years since F.D.R. came to power in 1933, became almost a genre of punditry. But descendants of...
After the Pennsylvania prediction, redeyed volunteers handed out "Re-elect Jimmy Carter" posters to all who would accept them and the band struck up "Georgia on My Mind."
WALTER LIPPMANN was betrayed by Lyndon Johnson, his advisers and the public that condoned American military intervention in Vietnam. Having ridiculed Kennedy's attempt to focus Western efforts against Asian communism on the Vietnamese civil war, Lippmann often declared that the United States could only lose a war fought on...
The rumor in Stockholm a year ago was that the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine would go to a trio of scientists for basic research in how the body defends itself against external agents and maintains its internal wellbeing. The prediction proved wrong-but only by twelve months. Last...
Sagan published his first paper at 22. Its title was an echo from his days with Muller and a sign of his growing interest in exobiology: "Radiation and the Origin of the Gene." A key point was that radiation may have been the trigger for the combination of the first...