Word: clue
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There is no clue in Images of Truth as to whether or not, after his own long silence, Wescott will speak as storyteller again. In the end he is left waiting, perhaps for some miraculous intervention when-in the words of Thomas Mann, which Wescott wistfully quotes-"some new work can begin to struggle into being, giving out light and sound, ringing and shimmering, hinting at its infinite origin, as in a seashell we hear the sighing...
...Wrong Clue...
Your article about the first successful Nike-Zeus interception of a special target vehicle borne aloft by an Atlas ICBM [TIME, July 27] stated that "the onrushing Atlas ICBM actually carried a transmitter to clue the slender, 48-ft. Nike-Zeus bird on the target...
Serious Weaknesses. McNamara observed -before the Kwajalein test that it would be conducted under "controlled conditions that differ substantially from actual combat." In last week's test the onrushing Atlas ICBM actually carried a transmitter to clue the slender, 48-ft. Nike-Zeus bird in on its target.* In an actual attack, an ICBM might spew out "decoys" designed to baffle the tracking radar-as was not the case last week-or an ionospheric nuclear blast might knock out the radar altogether. "As advanced as the Nike-Zeus system is-and we believe it to be quite advanced...
More and more of the indicators that businessmen watch for a clue to the shape of things to come were leveling off-a phenomenon that characteristically indicates that a period of recovery is coming to an end and a period of recession lies a few months ahead. The industrial production index in June barely managed to inch its way up from May's 117.5 to 117.8. June's $700 million increase in total personal income was the smallest for any month since January, and factory workers' income actually declined by $200 million. The gross national product, which...