TIME, THE EERILY PRESCIENT WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE Tomorrow's news today? We didn't always know it
"Near week's end, [President] Kennedy flew into Manhattan, aged his Secret Service detail ten years by forgoing the usual motorcycle escort into the city. At one of ten midtown traffic lights that stopped the presidential limousine, an ambitious female camera bug rushed up and fired a flashbulb at Kennedy's side of the car. Moaned a New York police official: 'She might well have been an assassin.'" --Nov. 22, 1963, date of issue on sale the week Kennedy was shot in Dallas
"Computermen have even been advised to get their machines out to 'see life' by setting up communications links between them and other computers in dispersed locations. Thus, computers will eventually become as close to everyday life as the telephone--a sort of public utility of information." --April 2, 1965, from a cover story on "The Computer in Society"
"Whatever their feelings about the war, [most Democrats] are beginning to line up behind [President] Johnson for 1968. Short of death or disablement, about the only thing that could keep Johnson from renomination in Chicago would be a Trumanesque decision to retire." --Oct. 20, 1967
"When the President of the U.S. makes a sudden, unexplained move during what is supposed to be a weekend of rest, it sends a ripple of consternation across the land. That is what happened when President Nixon, relaxing at his Camp David, Md., retreat, snatched up his briefcase, dashed to his helicopter and zipped back to the White House. To make matters murkier, White House spokesmen offered the lamest excuses. Speculation mounted. Quite simply, the President was escaping from the pollen hanging heavy over Camp David. Indeed, one wonders at the effort to cover up the President's allergy." --June 26, 1972, the issue published the week before the Watergate break-in
"When game is afoot, royal-watchers routinely engage in round-the-clock stakeouts, read lips with binoculars, suborn servants, chase their prey at crazy speeds in high-powered cars. There has been so much of this mad motoring that the wonder is that no member of the royal family or the public has been killed." --Feb. 28, 1983, from a cover story on "Royalty vs. the Press"
"This is not your father's White House. If anything, it's your daughter's." --March 8, 1993, from an article on the new youth culture at the Clinton White House
TIME, THE NOT-ALWAYS-SO-EERILY-PRESCIENT WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE Our seers haven't always been in good working order
"What failures loomed, none could say. Would the nightmare, to many tragically cruel, never end? As shades of Tuesday evening fell, it seemed again that the worst was past. Hysteria, it was hoped, had met its master in the Banking Power of the U.S." --Nov. 4, 1929, from coverage of the October stock-market crash
"In 1931, Adolf Hitler was Germany's rising star. In 1932 he and his Nazis slipped back to the tune of 2,000,000 lost votes. His thunder was largely stolen by General Kurt von Schleicher, the new Chancellor to whom many a German looks as Man of Next Year." --Jan. 2, 1933 (weeks before Hitler became Chancellor), from Man of the Year profile of Franklin D. Roosevelt