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Punditry: Seer in Washington

World War III will break out in 1958. Red China will be admitted to the United Nations in 1959. Walter Reuther will be the Democratic candidate for President in 1964. Davis Strait [between Canada and Greenland] will become strategically crucial to the U.S. in 1963. Richard Nixon will be the Republican presidential candidate in 1964.

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...

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