Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sugar-beet producers, who supply 24% of U.S. consumption, also see a 10% increase in production to 2,700,000 tons this year. But the sugar-beet men are cautious about the future. They want to see what sort of sugar law Congress passes when the old one expires March 31. (Congress seems likely to follow Dwight Eisenhower's request to extend the present law while a new sugar policy is worked out.) They are also wary of the effects of a sudden return to good relations with Cuba after their expansion plans are well under way. The Florida...
...week's end the Laotian cry of invasion was read as an exaggeration (see FOREIGN NEWS), and the U.S. was agreeing with its cautious British and French allies that a neutralist-rather than a pro-Western-government might be best for Laos...
...months each side has had a man in Laos. The Russians back Captain Kong Le, an ebullient paratrooper who captured Vientiane back in August with a battalion-sized coup. The U.S.'s man was General Phoumi Nosavan, a cautious soldier who four weeks ago chased Captain Kong Le out of Vientiane and installed the government of Premier Boun Oum, an easygoing prince from southern Laos...
Under its new anti-Communist government, Laos got off to a shaky and cautious start last week. In the capital city of Vientiane, ravaged by three days of bitter fighting, homeless refugees poked about the smoldering bamboo ruins. Most utilities and water mains were knocked out of commission. The city's main hospital, jammed with 500 wounded, and desperately short of water, tapped the swimming pool at the nearby U.S. embassy residence. When U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Brown held a public distribution of rice flown in by the U.S., he was rushed by a hungry mob and had to flee...
...closeness of his election victory had wrought a change in Jack Kennedy, and it showed last week. It determined him on a more moderate political course, and it made him more cautious in making his appointments. It had not, however, deprived him of that remarkable self-confidence of a man of 43 taking on perhaps the toughest and most important political office on earth. As rumors of Cabinet appointments swirled like snowflakes, in the midst of it all sat President-elect John Fitzgerald Kennedy-relaxed, and determined not to be rushed into any decisions before he was good and ready...