Word: uncertainities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebel leaders admit bafflement at how to win friends with dirty collars. Moreover, after failure of an anti-Batista navy uprising in Cienfuegos (TIME, Sept. 16), once dissident officers are for the moment behaving themselves. Uncertain how to turn the stalemate into a victory, the rebels demand that the U.S. cut off arms to Batista-a move which they think would be a powerful enough blow to the army's morale to bring the dictator down...
...purchases, cutting down sharply on luxuries. Mourned a Los Angeles night-owner as he cast an eye over empty bar stools: "I guess I'll have to trim the $2 cover charge. Six months ago it didn't to make any difference. Now people are too uncertain to spend dough." The U.S. public seemed more worried about the economy than during the 1953-54 recession. Consumers are deeper in than they were in 1954, more troubled about the cold war, less confident about the Eisenhower Administration, so they find signs of sag more worrisome. The mood of grey...
...uncertain when the University will convert the apartment building to dormitory use, but it is understood that formal arrangements to transfer the properly will be completed in the near future...
...most unusual movie, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre proves that the melodramaticgenre need not follow a pattern--there is scarcely a woman in the movie, and one is slightly uncertain if there is a hero--and that it can have a considerable intellectual as well as emotional impact...
...Still as uncertain as new schoolboys of the exact nature of their function, the newly elected legislators of Ethiopia were unlikely to criticize the Emperor's activities very strongly for some time to come. The constitution makes the Cabinet responsible not to them but to the Emperor, gives him the power to appoint every member of the Senate. But thanks to Haile Selassie, they were there in the Parliament, empowered and even encouraged to voice the will of their constituents. For the people of Ethiopia, it was a major improvement on the past, when the only way to make...