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Suddenly the Moroccan Sons of the Prophet were caught in a heavy enfilading fire. Muongs and Moroccans now began to pull back, fighting all the way. At twilight, General de Lattre's pilot warned him they must leave. From the Plexiglas window of his small plane, De Lattre continued to watcn the battle, saw that artillery fire had stopped the Communists...
...most obvious flaw in the whole Taft position was his hopeful prophecy that Russia would not attack the U.S. It justified a look at his record as a military prophet. In February 1941 Taft predicted with equal certainty: "It is simply fantastic to suppose there is danger of an attack on the U.S. by Japan...
...would be a cheap way to wage war are dead wrong. The U.S., he likes to point out, has so far spent $300 million on guided missiles ("only a starter"), while Nazi Germany spent $2 billion in developing the V-2 rocket alone-"a comparatively simple device." Says Kindelberger, prophet of the push-button war: "The public has no conception yet of what the guided missile means. The time is coming when the defense of the U.S. will be pretty much automatic...
...bloody civil uprising at Münster 18 years after Luther's Ninety-Five Theses. Early Quaker simplicity strikes Knox as "almost . . . boorishness," and he takes fastidious note of Founder George Fox's "barbarous" style of writing. But he nonetheless pictures Fox as a potent prophet...
Three years ago Norbert Wiener, professor of mathematics at M.I.T., was a "longhair" who had coined the word "cybernetics"* to wrap up the many-sided science of communication and control devices. Now Wiener's book, Cybernetics (TIME, Dec. 27, 1948), is a classic, and Wiener is a prophet who is listened to by shorthaired, hardheaded businessmen. Many of them agree wholeheartedly that the "cybernetic revolution" he predicted is already in progress...