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...late Senator Robert Wagner, has cooled the race for depositors but has brought bitter complaints from many S. & L. leaders. Government officials, however, believe that the new rules will let the S. & L.s grow at a safer if slower speed and help them to achieve the maturity that the prudent banks have already attained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Savings & Loan: Growing Pains | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...political best with a stump-stirring speech at a $100-a-plate roast beef dinner for 3,500 in the Fontainebleau Hotel. He paid tribute to Kennedy, vowed "to continue the work he began." He said he intends to prove "that Government can be progressive without being radical, prudent without being reactionary." In an atmosphere of wall-to-wall wealth, he announced that he would send his message on poverty to Congress this week. Then he turned to civil rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The First 100 Days | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

...moon's surface was formed under nonearthly conditions, and it may be different from the earth's surface in ways that the most open-minded sci entists cannot imagine. To land on it without having seen close-up pictures first would be something less than a prudent space project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Need for Pictures | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

Nationality seems to make no difference at all. "Ga-ga-GAAK, ga-ga-GAAK" means the same thing to a Russian Orloff rooster, an Italian Leghorn, a Cornish cock or a New Hampshire Red. At the sound of the excited cackling, prudent poultry the world over get the same message: "Watch out! Danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zoology: Chicken Talk | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

...prudent lion refuses to rend Christians in the arena-not because he cares about them but because he senses that they may soon take political power in Rome and he wants his act of neutrality to be on record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Truth & Consequences | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

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