Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Changing Flags. For three days the battle lines shifted. Desertions were commonplace and simple to effect; a soldier of uncertain mind had only to change the red arm band of the Kong Le faction for the white band of General Phoumi. Anxious to please, shopkeepers waved red or white flags as the tide of battle wavered...
With the guest list so uncertain, committee frequently met with turbing problems of detail. It was occasionally difficult, for example, find accommodations for the speakers. Throughout the week, there frequent last minute attempts to someone who could drive a from Logan Airport to the University. One evening, too, just be a panel discussion, the found itself with more invited than it could use--and had to several of them to sit in the audio and listen. Through some quick stitution plays, most of these a chance to participate later forum, and none seemed particularly annoved. Such occurred did not prevent...
...opening Sonata, that of Opus 109, Mr. Fischer first demonstrated his strengths and weaknesses. After a somewhat uncertain beginning, probably the result of nervousness, he succeeded in conveying the dolce, expressivo tone of the first movement. The second section, however, seemed rather too prestissimo for his fingers, and the opening of the final slow movement lacked the needed singing quality. The final minutes of the work more than made up for this lack, though, and Mr. Fischer's playing of the final variation, with its incredibly long (and beautiful) trills and arpeggio passages, was nothing less than spell-binding. With...
That line may have been overemotional, but the rest of the show invited emotion. The scattered, somewhat uncertain opening scenes were followed by startling juxtaposed flashes of irony. A flat-bed truck jammed with migrant families who were allowed to rest only every ten hours was compared to a cattle train, which by federal law has to stop for five of every 28 hours. A rat-infested hovel housing six was contrasted with a nearby $500,000 stable for race horses. And Murrow noted that while the Federal Government spends $6,500,000 annually to protect migratory wild life. Congress...
...usual, just what De Gaulle's Algerian policy was remained somewhat uncertain. In a front-page editorial, Paris' normally pro-Gaullist Le Figaro grumbled that "it is not excessive for a democratic nation, in circumstances as grave as these, to ask to be informed-and clearly." Yet even such senior Cabinet officers as Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville were still unsure of De Gaulle's ultimate aim: whether he still hopes to keep Algeria federated with France or is reconciled to its total independence...