Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Firm Stand. The assembled Sikhs gave an audible sigh of relief, and the immolations were postponed while Speaker Hukam huddled with Sant Fateh. After 2½ hours of talks, the Sant signaled his acceptance by taking a glass of orange juice from Sardar Hukam, thus breaking his fast. Under the deal, Mrs. Gandhi will arbitrate the Sikh demands after next February's national elections. As an added fillip, she promised to set up separate judicial and executive systems for the Sikh and Hindu states...
...whole deal, they suggested, was prearranged. But whether it was or not, Indira was clearly the winner. Lately she has been showing a tendency to buckle under public protest involving everything from cow slaughter to government control of gold merchants. This time she showed that she can also stand firm-at least until after next month's elections...
...M.I.T. President Julius Stratton and former Harvard Dean McGeorge Bundy -who, coincidentally, now hold the two top jobs at the Ford Foundation-advises a metropolitan council embracing 78 towns and cities. It gets so many requests for help that Director Daniel Moynihan says, "We could be the largest consulting firm in the country if we followed up all the inquiries we get-everyone wants universities to solve his problems...
...committee complained that the new confession downgrades the authority of Scripture since it involves the words of men, conditioned by the "places and times in which they were written." It also rejects the idea, implicit in the new confession, that the church has an imperative obligation to take firm stands on such temporal is sues as civil rights and poverty...
...Scandinavians, sent interest rates on medium-term bonds of five to ten years' maturity up as high as 7%. Recently, however, the demand for bond money has been more orderly -and more money seems to be available for everyone. Robert Genillard, European partner of the Manhattan investment banking firm of White, Weld & Co., points out that the Eurobond market, now $1.3 billion, is nearly three times as large as it was in 1962. Says he: "While American borrowers accounted in 1966 for around 40% of the flotations, what is left for others is still a larger total than before...