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...Jitterbug," declared veteran composer Sigmund Romberg (Student Prince,Blossom Time), "is the healthiest kind of exercise. There's no sex in it like those 'lights low' dances after the last war. But I predict its eventual demise...
What Senator Pepper would predict with finality is the fate of vindictive efforts in Congressional Committee to quash the whole of Labor: "It's obvious that the liberal Republicans and the Democrats are joining to prevent antiunion measures. Of course there will be legislation, but we are trying to make it reasonable and rational. We'll succeed in Committee. On the floor I don't know...
While Republicans blinked and Democrats grinned, there came another blast. South Dakota's ultra-conservative Republican Senator Harlan J. Bushfield bounced up to declare, "The leaders of Congress are in confusion among themselves. . . . We have failed in everything which we promised the voters. ... I predict that unless the Republicans come alive . . . . they will fail again when the next election comes around...
Three thousand people swarmed to Delhi University, jammed together on wooden benches, and sat on the ground in chilling Indian weather to hear the American astronomer predict what a Newsweek correspondent called "a great intellectual awakening" in India. "I have never spoken," said Professor Shapley, "to a more responsive, alert, and eager audience. India is one of the hopes for the world. The sky is the limit for scientific research in India...
Nerve cutting is a drastic operation, and doctors know they cannot predict all its effects. Like the vagus nerve operation for ulcers, and pre-frontal lobotomy for insanity (TIME, Dec. 23), cutting the phrenic nerves impairs some internal functions, but doctors have observed no serious effects. Their conclusion: nerve cutting is justified as a last resort...