Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After ten terms in the House, Minnesota's Republican Representative Walter Judd was determined to retire. He was unhappy because the state legislature had tacked some heavily Democratic Minneapolis wards onto his previously safe Fifth District. He was even unhappier with the hundreds of constituent-pleasing chores that consume the time of a Congressman, and he wanted to devote full time to talking to youth groups around the U.S. But after he announced last April that he was quitting, Judd got more than 5,000 letters -many from outside his district-urging him to stay on. He changed...
...Premier Amintore Fanfani. whose political alliance with Pietro Nenni's Socialists is already strained by membership in NATO, which Nenni dislikes. To get involved in Cuba could be death to his center-left coalition regime; so Fanfani confined his comments on the U.S. action to such safe words as, "Italy judges as positive that, in a moment when loud alarms are sounded, the U.S. has requested the United Nations to intervene in order that the causes of this alarm might be eliminated...
This type of heart disease is rare, the doctors note, where malnutrition and parasitic infestations cause anemia and keep the hematocrit scores down. It is common est among well-fed, "redblooded" peoples. Bleeding in moderation to cut the hematocrit score to a safe reading between 40% and 45%, the Tulane doctors suggest, may well be one answer...
...convictions, a record in office, or even a definite program. They have no opinions, only prejudices they do not argue, only assert. In short, they are conventional senatorial candidates, though a little worse than most. Neither believes in anything, neither has any force or imagination, and it seems entirely safe to say that neither would greatly dignify the Senate...
Though Fail-Safe is a far more competent gee-whiz job than Seven Days, neither author team can create believable characters. The reason is built into the nature of the genre. For if these characters were convincing human beings of the sort who actually run things-and whose very character and competence prevent the calamities involved-there would be no books...