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One prediction is easy to make. Urban areas--and suburbs more often than cities--will send more Representatives to Congress than at present. In Georgia and Texas, the metropolitan areas of Atlanta, Houston, and Dallas, will each gain an additional Congressman. However, the Court has not demanded immediate redistricting (which...

Author: By Michael D. Barone, | Title: Redistricting Rule | 3/17/1964 | See Source »

Gallup's prediction of victory through brain power derives from scientists' estimate that the average Western man uses only 2% to 5% of his mental capacity. Gallup argues that exercising the intellect with weighty issues will toughen flabby thinking, nourish creativity, enlarge perception. Yet Gallup's own...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victory Through Brain Power | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

Goldwater, naturally, is praying for a huge Lodge vote. His prediction that the Ambassador will take second place today (after himself) is probably calculated to ensure that the Ambassador will. For the same kind of reasons, Goldwater has been saying nice things about Bobby Kennedy. At a rally Saturday in...

Author: By Michael Lerner, | Title: Senator on Horseback | 3/10/1964 | See Source »

Rockefeller, obviously buoyed up by a feeling that he is gaining on Goldwater, last week campaigned hard in New Hampshire with his expectant wife. In a tough statement issued at Keene, Rocky hit again at Goldwater's scheme to make social security a voluntary program. Said Rockefeller: "It would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Down to the Tallest Tree | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

The Bullish Force. In his television address to the nation, President Johnson passed along a prediction by a little-known Wall Street economist, Pierre Renfret, that business spending would grow by 20% this year-though he neglected to mention that Renfret meant only spending by manufacturing companies, expects overall spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: Surge in Capital Spending | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

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