Word: cautionings
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...advertiser's theory is that news of the recession stirs up even more caution and uncertainty in consumers. But newspapers that tailor the news to this formula help neither the economy nor themselves. Says Tennessean Editor Coleman A. Harwell: "How can we pretend there's no unemployment when people are talking about it? If we pretend, we look stupid...
Millions of families with incomes not nicked by the recession were gripped by a mood of tight-fisted caution. Liquor dealers reported a drastic switch from costlier to cheaper brands. Chain-store sales were brisker than in booming early-1957 because many housewives were forgoing the comparative serenity of the corner delicatessen or grocery store and shopping in supermarkets to save pennies to put into savings accounts. In Chicago a young woman borrowed $500 from a downtown bank at 4½% interest, offering as collateral her $650 savings account drawing 2% interest. She just didn't want...
...also firmly supported the view that homosexuality was immoral and ought to be eradicated. Considering the medical support for the Wolfenden recommendations, is it not possible that here, as in the case of nuclear warfare, scientists have opened doors with no regard for the reasons that impel caution...
Aged on the Grapevine. But the A.P.'s rocket was already burning up. After a phone conversation with its Moscow Bureau Chief William Jorden, the punctilious New York Times warned that "the rumors be treated with the greatest caution." From Washington,* the U.P. filed a detailed story on the State Department's wholly logical explanation for the spaceman stories: they had apparently been inspired by an Orson Wellesian rocket opera broadcast Sunday by Radio Moscow. Next day, in an intercontinental missive to editors, the A.P. said its two Moscow staffers (Bureau Chief Harold K. Milks and Roy Essoyan...
...echo of new rumblings about disarmament negotiations, U.S. Physicist Edward Teller, "the father of the H-bomb." this week came forward with some well-chosen words of scientific caution. Writing in the January Foreign Affairs, Teller (TIME, Nov. 18) looks with knowing doubt on proposals to start disarmament by agreeing to halt tests of nuclear bombs. "It has been claimed that a nuclear test can be noticed around the world and that a ban on tests would therefore appear to be self-policing,"writes Teller. "Actually, a nuclear test is easily noticed only if it is performed in the most...