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...Hell. As for judgment -to Eliot, alas, that mostly means deciding whether to take a last fling at government service. After pages and pages of squinting at the traps behind the enticements, Eliot turns down the offer to be a minister of state. For readers who know their prudent, prudent Eliot, the suspense is less than killing...
Czechoslovakia's CSA is the best of a dubious bunch. Its pilots are relatively prudent, and its stewardesses-who tend to be long-limbed, cool blondes-are the most stylishly dressed. They serve Pilsen beer and the standard Eastern European airline fare of cheese, salami and black bread. On the ground, too, CSA is more efficient than the others. Prague's airport is modern and attractive and has a reasonable restaurant. Taxis are usually available...
...regret that in an age which requires much courage and innovation in facing the pressing problems of our time-both national and international-that the Harvard Corporation chooses to be "prudent" rather than giving moral leadership for measures which will have to be taken sooner or later...
...prudent men would walk lightly into a university presidency today, and the presidency of the nation's most renowned Protestant seminary is no exception. At Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, where campus dissensions are exacerbated by increasingly divergent views on the application of the Christian Gospel, the search for a new president has lasted for more than two years. Last week Union's board finally settled on a personable, activist cleric whose chief credentials are administrative ability and courage: the Rt. Rev. J. (for John) Brooke Mosley, 54, former Episcopal Bishop of Delaware and currently Deputy...
...whether a Republican President will be able to persuade a disputatious Democratic Congress to adopt his finely tuned fiscal package. Much of the surplus, for instance, is predicated on deferring a cost-of-living pay raise now scheduled for federal employees. Though economic conservatives will cheer what Nixon calls "prudent policy," critics can be expected to fault his attack on social and environmental problems as timid. Nixon cites "economic credibility" as a goal of his Administration, but the tiny size of his estimated budget surplus is likely to raise skeptical eyebrows both in and out of Congress. Some economists contend...