Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bolivian army colonel. Marta worked as a clerk-typist at the Washington, D.C. Hospital Center, was a frequent guest at parties given by Bolivia's Ambassador Victor Andrade. ¶ In North Buffalo. N.Y.. frightened parents confiscated their children's bikes, Bible-class attendance dwindled, and one cautious housewife locked all three doors to her house, kept the key on a chain around her neck. The town had been terrified by the brutal drowning of blond Andrew Ashley, 3, who was found floating in the nearby Delaware Park lake, hands and feet tied with nylon stockings. Recalling...
Always on Keel. The lifting will be slow and cautious. The 308 massive jacks will move less than one-tenth of an inch at a time. Each time the jacks have raised the mass about one foot, precast concrete pillars will be placed to take the weight. In 29 months, if all goes well, the temple with its giant figures and the rock enclosing its inner rooms will rise 203 ft., safely above the water. It will then be set into a rounded, natural-looking cap of artificial rock. The last step will be to construct in front...
...tired eyebrows in the stalls of Widener. Of the graduate student as teacher, Cunliffe comments simply, "I disike the habit of entrusting so much instruction to graduate students." But his strongest criticisms involved the lack of imagination among many graduate students, many of whom he found "prematurely old and cautious, as if they were absorbing the vices of academic life before they had a chance to grasp its virtues...
Along with his glowing expectations for the domestic economy (see above). Treasury Secretary Dillon last week voiced cautious optimism about the U.S.'s position in the world economy. After running up an $11.2 billion balance-of-payments deficit in the last three years, the U.S. this year is narrowing the gap. Preliminary figures indicate that for the first six months of 1961, the overall deficit will run only $600 million v. $1.3 billion for the same period last year. In the so-called "basic balance of payments" (which excludes short-term capital flow), the U.S. will probably show...
Back a Better Man. Some observers ventured beyond such neutral ground, with cautious kudos for the presidential stance in the international batting box. The Vienna meeting, said the Boston Traveler, "has done much to raise American prestige abroad, to strengthen the Western Alliance, and probably to jolt Premier Khrushchev into a sober reassessment of our determination to defend freedom." Columnist Walter Lippmann, a man who has had two private audiences with Khrushchev and upholds the principle of "accommodation" in dealing with the Reds (TIME, Dec. 22, 1958), termed Vienna "significant and important because it marked the re-establishment of full...