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While the prediction of human behavior will never become an exact science, it should be noted that in the past seven national elections, the Gallup poll has, on the average, been right within 2 percentage points of absolute accuracy, and has never been farther off the mark than 2.8 percentage...
Partially responsible for the vogue are the show biz folks, always notoriously superstitious. Their favorite is astrology, the pseudo-scientific 5,000-year-old Babylonian art of prediction by analyzing the effect of the planets. France's Jeanne Moreau, for instance, lets it be known that she has her...
Malign Planets. Last week the seers were busier than ever making their forecasts for the new year, and, as usual, their admirers could take their choice. France's Madame Frederika, voted most reliable voyante of 1966 by a poll of Paris newspapers (on the basis, among other things, of...
Chicago's Irene Hughes saw an improved stock market and a continued war in Viet Nam. California's Sydney Omarr saw a good year for Johnson, but Omarr's principal Los Angeles rival, Carroll Righter, disagreed. Lyndon Johnson is a Virgo, noted Righter, and so his prospect...
More to Learn. Though the polls take themselves too seriously -and are usually taken too seriously -they do offer a kind of instant insight into the broader views of Americans and can catch sharp turns in public opinion. As a basis for making decisions, though, they are perilous guidelines indeed...