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A lot of Washington lawmakers and officials report an extraordinary tide of budget-criticizing mail. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey still gets sackfuls of letters applauding his furor-stirring prediction that continued high taxes would eventually bring on a hair-curling depression (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). New Hampshire's...
Startling Growth. For 1957 he ventured no crystal-gazing beyond a cautious prediction that "the nation's overall prosperity will be extended into the months ahead." But the Economic Report's special appendix on U.S. population trends peered two decades ahead, and what it saw was a period...
We have one prediction for the spring term, however, which must be expressed: President Nasser will seize the Ibis on the basis of ancient Egyption right
There has been a certain amount of "retrospective" validation of the Table, i.e., of selecting known criminals and looking back to see whether their early home life would have given them a high score on the Glueck test. In 1952 a study of 100 delinquent Jewish boys in New York...
If the Prediction Table eventually proves valid, it will have two significant uses: that of detecting potential delinquents, and that of determining which boys who seem wildly out of control are not really potential delinquents, but are merely going through a normal stage in their development. The Table may prove...