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Prediction*—
from the Safe Side * Probably one of the most interesting phases of the past election was the complete refusal of anyone to do even the smallest piece of predicting. It reached the point of a good, hearty laugh, when even late Tuesday night, General Eisenhower marking up an ever-increasing majority, the radio and television news-casters still hung on to their pet phrases of the past three (weeks: “This is no predicion; this is not final; there may be a change even yet; we refrain from making any statements.”
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