Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week. Out after nearly three years in office was scrappy little Amintore Fanfani, tagged with most of the blame for heavy Christian Democratic losses in last month's national elections. Summoned to Rome's Quirinal Palace by President Antonio Segni to get the nod as Premier was cautious, quiet Aldo Moro, secretary-general of the Christian Democratic Party...
Having been fooled once, many of them take refuge in the safety of "cautious optimism"-but the accent is on optimism. William Allan Patterson. 63, the breezy former banker who heads United Air Lines, feels "a great weight lifting from my shoulders" as a result of the economy's pickup. Metropolitan Life Insurance President Gilbert Fitzhugh, 53, who puts in an 80-hour week investing the insurance savings of 44 million Americans and Canadians, thinks that nowadays "individual businessmen are more optimistic than the economists." John F. Gordon, 63, an Annapolis-trained engineer who climbed the corporate stairs...
This is only one of the tests facing the new economy. Some of the more cautious worry that the stock market is becoming overpriced again, after one of the sharpest rises in its history; they believe, as J. P. Morgan put it, that the market "is destined to fluctuate." Others wonder how much the demand for steel will decline should the possibility of a strike evaporate, how long customers will continue to spend so freely, and how well the 1964 cars will go over. And bankers fret about how long the dollar can maintain its integrity in world markets with...
...bristled the fashion writers. The trend was there all right, they insisted, but cautious, turtle-paced British Shoe had not moved fast enough to catch it. "The truth is," said London Daily Mirror Woman's Editor Felicity Green, "that you stocked square toes too late. Mr. Clore." Fashionata Green even offered Clore a look at next season's shoe styles-low heels, high vamps, crescent-shaped toes. So far, few British Shoe stores appear to be stocking the style of the future. For one thing, the company was still worried about fashion writers. For another, it has recently...
...create prosperity-but is essential to it. Across the nation last week, the surprising business upturn -and where it would lead-was the subject of almost every businessman's conversation. The usual optimists had a field day, the fence-sitters felt stirrings of commitment, and even the normally cautious allowed themselves a grunt or two of satisfaction. The sentiments of U.S. businessmen, from the corporate chief to the corner clothier, were captured by Wall Street's Francis I. du Pont & Co.: "The current upswing in business seems to have something for everybody." Only six months ago many trendspotters...