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Once an Italian journalist asked him about his tragically flawed character: "How is it that you, who merited fame as a seer, did not see?" Ezra Pound could not answer...
During his second term he has created a greenhouse-full of professional seer squads, some of which have been very remarkable indeed. Perhaps the best-known of all these prophetic ventures are the Draper Committee (an impartial group of private citizens whose job was to recommend foreign aid policy), the Gaither Committee (to review defense strategy), the Nixon Committee on Price Stability and Economic Growth, and the National Committee on Goals chaired by Henry Wriston...
...former husband, and biggest wheel in the drive to bring industry to Arkansas, took to radio and TV to announce for Nixon-Lodge in an attempt to get a two-party system going in Orval Faubus' one-party state. ¶ Aging (87) David O. McKay, "Prophet, Seer and Revelator" as well as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sat side by side with Vice President Nixon (in the company of Mormon Apostle Ezra Taft Benson) in the church office in Salt Lake City and said: "I sat by your competitor a few days...
...cave-in, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd solemnly told Parliament that after five attempts to bore through 500 ft. of earth and limestone in search of the men, "all hope" had been abandoned. But wives of three of the white miners begged for one more rescue attempt. A self-styled seer, Petrus Johannes Kleinhans, 29, had told them that he had a vision in which he saw the precise position of seven black and three white men, still alive. When he pointed to the place to dig, mine officials, who had insisted all along that there was no hope, said...
...northernmost big island, is the small plaster bust (price: $1) of a stern-faced New England schoolmaster who died in 1887. William Smith Clark stayed only eight months on Hokkaido, but the visit, in 1876, was long enough for him to be enshrined by the islanders as something between seer and saint. On leave from his job as president of Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts), Clark helped found the school that was to become the outpost island's pride, its own first-rank university. Last week, as the university's 5,300 mackinawed students settled...