Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...progress with a cover story in mind, and Beirut Correspondents William McHale and Dennis Fodor have ranged widely over the Iranian countryside. After one trip to the remote rug-making town of Tabriz, McHale had to return to Teheran in "an ancient Russian sedan with weak brakes and uncertain gears. For 15 hours we groaned up hills, whistled down mountain slopes in neutral, while the driver merrily sang Persian war songs and I repeated what I hoped was a perfect act of contrition...
...University of North Carolina. In 1948 he was called on to help organize the $3 billion Ford Foundation. He has since disbursed some $50 million to jack up economic research on campuses across the world. His passionate interest: broadening management training, which he defines as "preparation for an uncertain future...
...only eleven points above the year's low. The New York Times combined average of 501 stocks hit its worst point since November 1958. But there was no rush to sell. Volume averaged a thin 2,500,000 shares daily as the market drifted down. "People are uncertain," as Walston & Co.'s Edmund W. Tabbell put it. "They're not scared enough to sell, but not certain enough to buy." Perhaps some of the uncertainty was caused by the rumblings from Khrushchev, the Congo and U.S. politicking. But the biggest worry was over the question of when...
Nixon's foreign policy plank is even more passive. What the Vice-President wishes to do--although it is somewhat uncertain what he means by the phrase--is to stand firm, and in doing so to liberate Eastern Europe and Communist South-east Asia. How he plans to do this--by being rude to the Russians, by being nice to them, or simply by aiming rockets at them whenever they behave badly--he gives no indication. The entire plank, in fact, when it is not hoping for a glorious future and deploring the recognition of Red China, is celebrating...
...present version was fitted together from pieces of several prints discovered after a long search of Europe. It is unquestionably an antique, with scratchy sound, uncertain lighting and a mannered kind of acting carried over from the silent films.. But it is not the sort of antique that must be watched with embarrassment. Lotte Lenya, as Jennie, is gawkily charming, and such Kurt Weill-Bert Brecht songs as Mack the Knife and Pirate Jenny retain their peculiar combination of sentiment and cynicism, even when filtered through English subtitles. Viewers who have seen the English stage version that has played...