Word: seers
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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...
...large utterance, but himself performs little. His own experimenting was unprofitable, and he ignored some of the best work of his contemporaries. But as the buccinator novi temporis (trumpeter of a new age), he is without an equal, and the next three centuries rightly regarded him as the seer, or even the poet, of science. Although he is reputed to be the father of the English essay, he despised the Epicurean life to which most of the essayists have been temperamentally inclined. He was at home in a heroic age, and scorned to be found anywhere but at intellectual headquarters...