Word: cautiously
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More than any other presidential candidate, Mo Udall has-and retains -a sense of humor. At a hey-look-him-over party for liberals at Arthur Schlesinger's Manhattan town house, Udall tried to reassure skeptics on his switch from describing himself as a liberal to the more cautious "progressive." Said Udall: "It's like the law professor who asked a student, 'What's the difference between fornication and adultery?' The student replied, 'Well, I've tried them both, and I can't tell the difference.' " In Wisconsin, when asked...
Despite the current upturn, most agency chiefs agree with Marvin Sloves, president of Scali, McCabe, Sloves: "Advertising is going to continue to be a tough business in which to make a buck." Tight budgets, cautious clients and a wary buying public have wrought substantial changes in the way Madison Avenue operates...
...Rhodesia could easily spread southward. But Vorster is not joined on this issue by the majority of South Africans, who would react strongly to any overt withdrawal of South African support for the Salisbury regime. Smith's realization of this lack of white South African support for Vorster's cautious policies contributes to his intransigence in dealing with Nkomo's faction of the African National Council...
...moment, U.S. grumblings about Cuba remain what one White House official describes as "an exercise in diplomatic deterrence" aimed chiefly at Moscow. There are some signs that the Russians are becoming more cautious about how they use their mercenaries next. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, for example, flew to London last week for three days of talks with British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan. Gromyko helped work out a withdrawal of South Africa's remaining 1,000 troops in southern Angola in time to blunt a U.N. Security Council showdown over the matter. Meanwhile, Mozambique President Samora Machel, whose country...
...Cause is government support for the arts, particularly writers. Leonard is too cautious about taking himself with excessive seriousness to come right out and bludgeon the point, but it still crops up now and then. Of the starving New York writers, he says gently that "in some crease of the American cultural flab, they ought to have a home." In discussing the cultural boondocks of Canada, he chides: "four times as much money, not per capita but just plain period, is spent on the care and feeding of literature than Washington has appropriated or could comprehend...