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...wispy plot begins with the birth of twins-an event so supernatural that the mother secretly consults a seer. The seer predicts that Peter and Paul will fight with each other in life as they have already done in their mother's womb. And so it turns out. When they grow up, both brothers fall in love with the lovely Flora, and she with them. This impasse is climaxed and, in a way, resolved in a hallucinatory scene in which Flora passes inward through their eyes until she penetrates their souls. Once inside their secret selves she finds them...
Ordinarily, the prophet responsible for such predictions would be without honor in any country. But self-styled Seer Jeane Dixon is a woman of some standing in the nation's capital. For three decades she has foretold catastrophes in Washington, and not too surprisingly one of her prophecies occasionally comes true. That seems enough to satisfy her fans, who welcome her to the local cocktail-party circuit. Her biggest fan, Hearst Columnist Ruth Montgomery, has now written a book about her, A Gift of Prophecy (Morrow; $4.50)-which generously omits most of the false prophecies...
...Montgomery that Franklin Roosevelt invited her to the White House in the last year of his life. She donned a black suit with buttons shaped like crystal balls and took a full-size crystal ball with her. First, the President wanted to know how long he would live. The seer touched his fingertips for the vibrations and minced no words: "Six months or less." "Will we remain allies with Russia?" a concerned F.D.R. wanted to know. "The visions show otherwise," she replied. On a second visit, she offered some advice on domestic policy: "The White House must not pamper...
European bankers, who consider Martin the most prescient economic seer in the U.S., opened the week with a burst of sell orders. Small investors at first did little selling, but nobody did much buying, either. The pension funds, mutual funds and insurance companies -which account for about one-third of all trading-conspicuously sat on their millions and waited for stocks to fall still lower in hopes of scooping up bargains. At midweek individual investors began to unload; larger numbers of 100-share and 200-share transactions danced across the illuminated ticker tape in the stock exchange...
...intestinal ailment; Belgium's King Baudouin, 34, in the royal palace in Brussels, suffering from infectious hepatitis; Richard Cardinal Cushing, 69, in Boston's St. Elizabeth's Hospital, following surgery for removal of a portion of his intestines; David Oman McKay, 91, President, Prophet and Seer of 2,000,000 Mormons, in Salt Lake City's Latter-day Saints' Hospital for the third time in eight months for treatment of a weak heart and congested lung; Actress Patricia Neal, 39, last year's Oscar winner as the housekeeper in Hud, in critical condition...