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EVERYONE AGREES that by next year Harvard should be the best team in the East and some people feel that Gambril and Harvard will be among the top five in the nation in five years. They base the prediction on the type of program and tradition that Yale had and...

Author: By Raymond A. Urban, | Title: But What's that Over the Hill? | 3/23/1972 | See Source »

That ominous and prescient prediction made last month by Federal Aviation Administrator John Shaffer came all too true last week, the most frightening that U.S. aviation has ever known. The episode began with a call to Trans World Airlines by a man who called himself Gomez. He directed officials to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Holding Up an Industry | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

Earlier Malraux had suggested that Mao Tse-tung's first question to Nixon would concern economic aid from the "richest nation in the world" to one of the poorest. It did not seem like a very plausible prediction about the proud foe of capitalism. But it fitted in with

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Middle America to Middle Kingdom | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

Twenty years ago, when he was a mere corporal in the King's African Rifles, Idi Amin Dada had a vision that told him some day he would be ruler of all Uganda. It was an accurate prediction. Last month General Amin, now 44, celebrated the first anniversary of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Big Daddy | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

SINCE early in 1970, U.S. intelligence experts have been particularly interested in satellite photos of a ship with an exceptionally long keel being constructed at the big Soviet naval shipyard in the Black Sea port of Nikolayev. In recent months, as the hull began to take shape, the photos disclosed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Reaching for Supremacy at Sea | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

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