Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...took a while for Jack Kennedy to be persuaded. He was then prepared to offer the State post to Dean Rusk, 51, head of the Rockefeller Foundation and a prospect with impressive credentials-except for the. fact that he is little known to the public, and Kennedy had wanted someone of national reputation...
...billion-of its original estimate of $37 billion. But the drop-off was so small that it was not a major depressant on the economy. While the report estimated that plant and equipment outlays will slide further to $34.9 billion in the first quarter of 1961, this prospect was not as bad as earlier expectations...
With this news, even steelmen, who have been wrong about their 1960 prospects so often that they have lately maintained a discreet silence, felt more optimistic. U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough, who last October said that inventories would drop to the 11-12 million-ton level by November, reported in a letter to stockholders that inventories had reached "about the same level they were at the end of the 1959 strike, an estimated 10-11 million tons," and are not likely to undergo "any appreciable further cut. The prospect of an improved operating rate in steel seems much more...
...force. After De Gaulle exploded two of his costly bombs in the Sahara, other NATO powers knew that the time was coming when West Germany-which already possesses the knowhow to make cheap, do-it-yourself A-bombs-might also insist on an independent atomic force. This is a prospect that even the majority of Germans regard without enthusiasm and which raises distinct hackles on other NATO necks, most notably Britain...
Green for Safe. The idea of sterilization is as repugnant to many Indians as to anyone else. But India's planners are determined. India's annual population growth would fill a city as big as New York, and there is always the prospect of not enough food to go round. Government officials get impatient over the incompetence and indifference with which many Indians use contraceptives. Attempts to introduce the rhythm system failed in India, even when poor villagers were given strings of calendar beads (green for "safe" days, red for "dangerous"). Some peasant women thought the beads were...