Word: bettering
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Lack of Coordination. In some respects the Government has been trying hard, and it is ironic that in an Administration that prides itself on efficiency and coordination one of the main roadblocks to better understanding with blacks is inefficiency and lack of coordination. No one has yet decided how the Administration should treat comprehensively the problem of the Negro. Sometimes, in fact, the Administration seems to be suffering from a mild case of schizophrenia...
...candidacy, Wagner was in confident good humor. He proclaimed no bold new programs-of course. Instead, the soothing voice intoned: "I do not pretend or believe that I can solve all the problems of New York City." But he made it clear that he thought he could do a better job than Lindsay, whom he accused of multiplying the city's problems. Wagner's style is more Miltown than Fun City, and there were politicians who were betting that quiet is just what many of the city's white middle- and working-class voters will want after...
Freedom of Action. Buoyed by war outlays and by the spending of 20,000 fedayeen in the country and 17,000 Iraqui, 7,000 Saudi and 5,000 Syrian troops now stationed there, Jordan's economy is actually in better shape than before the war. Jordan's dollar reserves are a healthy $300 million. But tourist receipts are down to a third of pre-1967 figures, and agricultural production has dropped with the loss of the West Bank. Israeli analysts sum up Jordan's economy as "financially good, but stagnant in terms of development...
...oversee the economy as Minister of Coordination because he was the colonel who knew how to add and subtract. Retired diplomat and Nobel laureate Georges S. Seferiades laments the "state of enforced torpor." But out in the stony, sun-washed countryside beyond Athens, the colonels' austerities are better received...
Faith and Family Honor. To understand both men and towns a little better, TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn toured the home villages of the four top colonels. On Crete, he visited Aghia Paraskevi (pop. 154), where Pattakos was born. He stopped at Dirahion (pop. 613) in the Peloponnesus, where loannis Ladas grew up, and Gravia (pop. 690), home of Nikolaos Makarezos. He stopped at Elaiohorion (pop. 280), a village surrounded by low hills, wheatfields, vineyards and olive groves, where Papadopoulos' father was schoolmaster. In each town the foundations were the same: the church, the cafe, and a code of ethics...