Word: cautioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Public Health Service, usually encased in a plaster cast of bureaucratic caution, took a relatively bold step last week. On the smoking-and-cancer question, it advanced from its guarded 1954 position ("some evidence of a statistical association"), last week announced: "There is an increasing and consistent body of evidence that excessive cigarette smoking is one of the causative factors in lung cancer . . . and there is a direct relationship between the incidence of lung cancer and the amount smoked...
...other strong magic for hearing music as it really sounds. Recently the hard-core hi-fiers. have been tuning their ears to even newer vibrations-the sounds of stereophonic tape. The record industry, with a fortune invested in disks, is sidling up to stereo tapes with the nervous caution of a man who fears he may be feeding the puppy that will bite him. The industry goes on with the feeding, though, because there is a possibility that the pup will grow up into a big commercial animal...
...High Road. Despite an army announcement that it planned to mop up Castro's revolt within a week, Batista's troops moved with a caution bordering on ineffectiveness. Army troops patrolled the main roads leading into the mountains, but footpaths remained open. Castro's couriers walked in and out of Santiago de Cuba, capital of Oriente, without interference...
...other networks, which, like CBS, constantly demand equal treatment with newspapers and magazines, stayed as silent as CBS. John Daly, ABC's vice president for news, said that he found nothing unsuitable in the White House reaction. Such a demonstration of eggshell caution under fire suggested that TV may be getting no worse than it deserves...
...Even ex-Socialist Reuther knew better than that. But what was encouraging in the hassle was that both management and labor-each understandably edgy about the rising criticism of the upward spiral-were so anxious to defend their positions before the public. From such edginess could come a new caution which ultimately should benefit management, labor and the U.S. economy in general...