Word: swiftness
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...seven countries; the U.S., having provided 59% of the pool's gold since France dropped out last summer, lost $1.5 billion. An estimated $2 billion went into the hands of speculators who were betting that the U.S. would raise the price of gold and so hand them a swift profit...
Infallible in its memory, incredibly-swift in its mathematical skills, the electronic computer is one of the marvels of modern science. Utterly impartial in the exercise of its talents, it is also becoming a valuable servant of contemporary religion. All the computer does, of course, is correlate facts and attitudes that have been gathered by questionnaire. But clergymen are be coming convinced that, properly programmed, the transistorized prophet can help the church adapt to modern spiritual needs...
...American dream to the ghetto" and preparing "to meet force with force if necessary." What attracted the most attention was his reiteration of the need to make it "abundantly clear that these preparations are made, and that retaliation against the perpetrators and the planners of violence will be swift and sure...
...students had to go through the gradual reconciliation this girl did. For some the return was swift and joyous. One boy said, "I walked up the steps to my room and pushed open the door. All my roommates were there slapping me on the back and saying, 'Hey, man.' Right then all the old ghosts were swept away. Before, the people I had known in high school were much realer to me than my college friends. But from then on, the characters in my dreams were the same people I saw walking around in the daytime...
Richard C. Webb '67, Arklay F. King 67, Victor Schramm, and William Swift, students at the Episcopal Theological School, are counseling draft-age students to follow literally the instructions on the backs of their draft cards. Registrants there are instructed to notify their local boards in writing of any change in their physical condition, occupation, marital, family, and dependency" status, within ten days of its occurence...