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...Largely Ritualistic." Roper was so sure of his prediction* that he was not even planning to report his running campaign forecast. Said he: "This is not a hare and tortoise race, and neither is it a race between two closely matched thoroughbreds ; it is a very ordinary horse race -a race in which one horse already has a commanding lead . . . My whole inclination is to predict the election of Thomas E. Dewey by a heavy margin and devote my time and efforts to other things...
...Communist Party, it is running a presidential ticket for the first time. In 1941, Dobbs, Mrs. Carlson and 16 other party members were convicted and sent to jail for conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the Government. They do not really advocate such rebellion, says Mrs. Carlson, "but we predict it." They consider Wallace "a millionaire demagogue...
...serve above it. The behavior of an airframe in the transonic region is still a frightening unknown. But designers are working hard and hopefully. They are sure that by the time they have the proper airframe, they will have engines with plenty of power for the job. Engine men predict confidently that turbojet engines will work efficiently at least as high as Mach 1.5 (1,145 m.p.h...
Thus a reasonable assessment would conclude that the chance of war had not increased. Although men do not always act reasonably, nobody in the West but a certified prophet had a right to predict (as some uncertified prophets did last week) that war was close...
...hostile critics concede that Stravinsky's fire is still burning. Says Composer Aaron Copland, who is not hostile: "All the other composers over 50 -the famous ones, I mean-are turning out more or less what is expected of them . . . Only Stravinsky [writes so] that no one can predict just where he will be taking us next...