Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Farewell, Cities. With Election Day just five weeks off, few Democrats share Bobby Kennedy's certainty of victory. Although the professionals exude the usual public confidence, many politicians in both parties are privately jittery and uncertain about the outcome. All the current polls show Kennedy and Nixon running neck and neck, with as much as 25% of the electorate still undecided on how to vote. Even in traditionally "safe" states, the margin of safety is uncomfortably close, and neither party can breathe easily. Nixon's claim on California is as shaky as Kennedy's on North Carolina...
...United Nations, biggest reason for the drop was worry about what is going on in U.S. business. The course of the economy has been so puzzling this year-and so many have already guessed wrong on where the economy is going-that investors and businessmen alike have become uncertain. Few are at all sure about what is ahead. Inland Steel Chairman Joseph Block spoke for many businessmen when he said: "I've never seen a year when our forecasts and actual production were so out of line...
...declared that the "basic issue in the campaign" was "trying to restore the prestige of the United States." In a speech to a Democratic gathering in Boston's Symphony Hall, Johnson hammered away at his point. "America no longer stands pre-eminent," he said. "Her friends are uncertain of her. Her adver saries boast, and with obvious relish, that they are certain-certain that they can and will overtake us and bury us. Under no single Administration in American history has the position of our nation in the world declined so far or so fast as it has under...
...vote was 9 to o for the West's resolution. Poland and Russia abstained "in the interests of international cooperation." Yet what really constitutes "enforcement action" under Article 53 is still uncertain and potentially troublesome...
Bodies in Bakwanga. Whether Lumumba has the military capability to conquer Katanga is becoming increasingly uncertain. At week's end the Lumumba forces assigned to spearhead the Katanga invasion were bogged down in the neighboring province of Kasai in what seemed to be building into a civil war of serious proportions...