Word: predictions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Apra support for the presidential election, in return legalized the party when he won. For this, the oligarchs labeled him a traitor to his class. Actually, the Prado-Apra alliance may avert the class struggle between the oligarchs and the Indian masses that historians (mindful of the Mexican revolution) predict. Apra turned right and met Prado going left...
...contest at Annapolis, it is always difficult to predict what will happen in the raucous confines of the Navy squash courts. The combination of rabidly partisan crowds, swelteringly hot courts, unusually aggressive Navy players and other local conditions have proven the undoing of better teams than the present Crimson aggregation. Very few people would have given a penny for Navy's chances against Yale, but when it was all over, the Midshipmen had gained a 5-4 verdict. All this, combined with Friday the thirteenth, should give the Crimson what will undoubtedly be its toughest match of the season...
...hard-hit industries were naturally taking more time than others to climb back to pre-recession levels. Yet even in oils, still beset by political troubles abroad and price problems at home, the fourth-quarter pickup was strong enough to cause Chairman K. S. Adams of Phillips Petroleum to predict: "If present trends continue, both gross and net income in 1959 will be the highest in the company's history...
...fraction of life at Princeton." Observers in Princeton hope that this official endorsement de-emphasizing Bicker, plus the emergence of Wilson Lodge as an attractive alternative to the club system, will promote a more successful Bicker. There are, however "too many variables" inherent in the process, they note, to predict what will happen later this week...
...called "the greatest bad poet now living." It would be in character if he agreed with that estimate, although he can be called "bad" only in the sense that his rhymes sometimes jingle like a song writer's and that his subjects are often deliberately homely. Literary bookmakers predict that Betjeman (rhymes with fetch-a-man) will be England's next poet laureate. By last week, his Collected Poems had caused a rush on British bookstores probably unmatched by any newly published work of poetry since Byron's Childe Harold burst forth in 1812. Betjeman...