Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind the delay lies the widening shadow cast by the Vietnam war. Because of the war's expense, Bryant says, the President probably "doesn't want to introduce new programs that have to be financed in novo." It is not clear just what the Commission's report will recommend, but it is sure to call for big increases in federal expenditures on libraries. And Johnson gave this kind of expenditure a distant second priority in his Education message to Congress, so the immediate prospects for pushing federal construction of massive new research centers look thoroughly bleak...
...European Delays. Ironically, it was the Europeans who thought up the idea of an air bus-only to fumble away their chances to cash in on it first. Technicians from Scandinavian Airlines broached the notion at the 1963 Paris Air Show. It was four years later when France, Britain and West Germany got together to form a manufacturing consortium to build an air bus. Their ef forts have met with one delay after another, and the British have yet to build even a test model of the RollsRoyce engine that is supposed to power the plane. As matters stand...
...inequitable action does have two pale virtues. Johnson has ended the shameful delay which threatened to leave the status of graduating seniors unresolved until next fall. And the National Security Council has avoided the folly of trying to sort out some fields of graduate study as more worthy of deferment than others...
...long delay in finding another site for the Bennett transit facility could post-pone ground-breaking beyond that date. If this happens, a Library spokesman said last night, the MBTA will probably be given an extension on the use of Bennett...
...Harvard dean with his own sources of information is convinced that the President will take no action at all. This is a distinct possibility. Since last March, Johnson has studiously avoided personal involvement in the controversy. He has taken every opportunity to delay his decision, including asking the Defense Department for this new selection system after it had submitted a half-dozen. The draft is a delicate issue, and the President evidently prefers not to tangle with...