Word: prudently
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...There are no experts on the Soviet Union," said Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan F. Twining one day last week, "just people with varying degrees of ignorance." For a man just back from a carefully shepherded, eight-day inspection of Soviet aviation, it was a prudent remark. But as a press conference quickly established, Twining's visit to Moscow had led him to some firm conclusions about Russia. The most important: the U.S. is out in front of Soviet airpower and should be able to stay there...
...Church of England. The draft of a canon flatly prohibiting remarriage of the divorced has long been creeping through official Anglican channels on its way to becoming church law, and last month it reached the Convocation of Canterbury. With Parliament the ultimate stop, the Archbishop of Canterbury felt it prudent to raise a warning hand...
...wounded. Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis pleaded with the British to call off the executions. So did 30 British Labor M.P.s. And so, departing briefly from the U.S. decision to be neutral over Cyprus, did John Foster Dulles, who asked Britain's Selwyn Lloyd "whether it would not be prudent to postpone the hanging...
...smell of so much corruption only encouraged the zealous investigators to go on. But already there were hints of favoritism, and signs that continued prying might embarrass the new government. The decree ending investigations seemed to be a prudent recognition that bullying Peronista bullies could eventually get to be too much of a good thing...
Before taking the stern measure, Finance Minister Oscar Herrera made a couple of prudent hedges. One was a flat ban on importing certain luxuries, to prevent a possibly perilous outrush of dollars for goods not really needed. Another was an agreement with the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. Treasury and eight U.S. banks for a $75 million stabilization fund to meet possible dollar runs. The free rate is expected to settle around 500, then begin the hard climb back...