Word: modestly
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Holding the Line. For the first time, the Pentagon came up with a hard estimate of the military cost of Viet Nam: $5.8 billion during fiscal 1966, which ended June 30; a massive jump to $19.4 billion-for the current budget year; a far more modest rise to $21.9 billion for the year beginning July...
...Leslie E. Rudolf has tried a number of variations, including supercooling with DMSO, under different oxygen pressures, to reduce the cell's metabolism. Dr. Rudolf believes that ways of reducing the metabolism still further may provide the key to preservation of a single whole organ. Even that comparatively modest achievement, starting with a live organ, still lies in a distant future. The prospect of restoring function to a whole human body, with dozens of organs and cell types, which must first be brought back to life, is even more remote...
More Mileage. Even to make these modest increases possible, the President will have to prune heavily in other areas. As Budget Director Charles Schultze sees it, the most likely targets are the Federal Highway program, public-works projects by the Corps of Engineers, other construction spending that can be stretched out or deferred. In the U.S. space program, the effort to put a man on the moon will not be affected, but post-Apollo projects are likely to be slowed down. Few potential economies have been overlooked: the President expects to save $8,000,000 a year with a regulation...
...Davis lives in a modest century-old house in London with his Persian wife Shamsi and their two-month old son. In September, he will become musical director of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the youngest conductor ever appointed to the prestigious job. Not surprisingly, he scoffs at the accent on his youth. He insists that he is already experiencing "the odd and beautiful glimpses of objectivity" that come with advancing years. "When you are young you are attacked by music as a disease, and you try to get something out of it that it can't possibly give...
...dictates all autobiographies, the good and the bad; the truly modest man keeps silent, letting his life speak for itself. The literary world can be grateful that Novelist Vladimir Nabokov is not all that modest a man. He is, in fact, a compulsive autobiographer. For the past 30 years he has been disbursing fragments of this book to an international assortment of periodicals, obsessively revising, editing and amplifying. Now in its final polish, Speak, Memory deserves to stand as a rare and precious specimen of the autobiographical...