Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...predicted we wouldn't do well against Chicago last weekend, and they kicked the living dickens out of us," noted Oakland Athletics Owner Charles Finley of his new employee. She is Laurie Brady, an astrologer, columnist (the National Star), and now Finley's designated team prophet. Brady has drawn astrological charts on all the Oakland players, as well as on Finley himself, and is telling her boss what's in his stars, athletically speaking. Maybe Finley shouldn't listen. Brady says Kansas City will top Oakland in the Western Division, and that three...
Died. Grover C. Loening, 87, pioneering aeronautical engineer, prophet and author; from the effects of a stroke; in Miami. Loening held the first aeronautical degree granted by an American university (Columbia, 1910) and, as a member of Orville Wright's design team, was taught to fly by Orville himself. In 1917 he formed his own plane-manufacturing company, eventually selling some 300 amphibian biplanes and becoming a millionaire in the process. In his 1935 book, Our Wings Grow Faster, Loening predicted that "at 500 m.p.h. 50,000 ft. above the ocean . . . far above storms...
...tone is that of the seer scorned; yet he can hardly claim to be the prophet ignored. For 30 years he has been a cinder in the public eye: novelist, Broadway playwright, television dramatist, screenwriter, essayist, congressional candidate, actor, troubador to the Kennedy Camelot, talk-show regular, political debater and full-time nag. Millions who have never read him recognize his electronic presence: elegance bordering on narcissism, feline languor, throaty self-assurance...
...party is now assembling that platform on which the eventual nominee must stand or run or fall or whatever. The issue that most grips me is monogamy for Utah. Many otherwise quite sane politicians become livid at the mention of the Mormons, a curious sect recently invented by a "prophet" and confined for the most part to the Utah desert, where Mormon women live in harems and breed incontinently. They sound very nice to me, if overly energetic...
...Elect the Last President," Robert L. Kelleher told his audiences in New Hampshire. Kelleher, a Montana lawyer, was not running as a doomsday prophet, but rather, as the man who would restore parliamentary government in America and abolish the presidency...