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...Within half a century," he predicted ". . . the whole face of the planet will have been unified politically through the concentration of irresistible military power in some single set of hands." Whether this unification will come through a world war or without it, he would not say. Nor was he ready to predict in whose hands the irresistible military power would rest. But in his mind's eye, Toynbee seemed to see the U.S. in nominal charge of the world, with Soviet Russia tacitly recognizing American dominance because it feared to challenge...
...Stouffer was a member of the Committee on Pre-Election Polls and forecasts of the Social Science Research Council, which published a 400-page analysis of the polls after they failed to predict a Truman victory...
...polls have a very good record, on the whole, Stouffer said. "The public damned them in 1943, just as many people damned the weather bureau for failure to predict the New England hurricane and the New York blizzard...
While the nation's press likes Ike, most of Harvard's Nieman Fellows wavered to the Democratic side yesterday to predict victory for Governor Adlai E. Stevenson...
...Niemans were unanimous on one thing: they all agreed that Robert B. Frazier, of the Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard, that "people who predict always get in trouble . . ." Frazier's quandary is that his "native intelligence" tells him Eisenhower will win, while by adding up the electoral votes he finds Stevenson ahead 273 to Ike's 258. "I would be interested if somebody would tell me which is superior--my mathematics or intelligence," he said after voting for the Governor...