Few could
hope, for instance, to duplicate the feat she performed late in 1956. During the course of a newspaper interview a reporter asked for a forecast
about Jawaharlal Nehru, who
had then been Prime Minister of India since 1947. Jeane consulted her crystal ball and replied that he would be succeeded within approximately
seven years by a man whose
name would begin with the letter s.
On May 27, 1964, death
claimed the great Indian leader, and Parliament chose as his successor Lal Bahadur
Shastri. ShastriÕs name, as foreseen slightly more than seven
years before, did indeed begin
with an s. (Gift
of Prophecy, 28)