Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certainly does not care to make any such mistakes, has been understandably cautious. But he was being urged to call up at least two "top priority" Guard divisions to fill the service pipeline. Also discussed: extension of present enlistments and an expanded draft call. If the President made any firm decisions, he kept them to himself last week...
...growing faith in the new American President in order to defend interests and pursue objectives of their own." And according to Sorensen, the whole Bay of Pigs project "seemed to move mysteriously and inexorably toward execution without either the President's being able to obtain a firm grip on it or reverse it." Still, whatever weaknesses there may have been -or may remain-in government decisionmaking, there seems nothing wrong with the apparatus that firm leadership at the top cannot cure. The trouble at the time, both chroniclers argue, was the President's newness. He had been...
...industries are making longer-term plans, paying less attention to possible short-term fluctuations in the economy and more attention to likely expansion and markets over the long haul. The aerospace industry is making hard plans for ten years ahead and estimates for 30. Detroit automakers have already begun firm planning in the expectation that "normal" yearly sales will be 9,000,000 cars by 1970 and 11,000,000 by 1975. The steel industry, in one small area east of Chicago, is busy building enough new capacity to produce 71 million tons from basic oxygen furnaces and 15 million...
...Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Wackiest Ship in the Army (all NBC), The Long, Hot Summer, Tammy and Gidget (ABC). Less taxing yet is to just show the movies themselves. NBC already shows two in prime time, ABC one, and all three shows are firm rating successes. So next year CBS will join...
Lots of Class. Lately, the firm has branched into sportswear as well as lingerie, but bras and girdles are still the foundation of its business. In keeping with the shape and mood of the times, Triumph calls its sportswear by such names as "Caprice" and "Swing-times," and its lingerie "Jolly," "Amourette" and "Poesie." Braun applauds Rudi Gernreich as a pacemaker, but has yet to try the topless approach...