Word: slacked
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Though many businessmen instinctively squirm at such attempts to control the marketplace, the most serious im pending threat to the economy does not come from any widespread lack of confidence in the Administration but rather from success itself. There is little slack in the U.S. economy - and an anticipated boost of anywhere from $5 billion to $10 billion in defense spending for Viet Nam next year may well expand it to the limit. Shortages of skilled la bor are showing up in the construction, aviation and shipbuilding industries. As a result, draft boards throughout the country have been ordered...
Captain Bruce Fowler was out with a cold, but breaststroker Bob Corris, record-holder Bill Shrout, and those heralded sophomore sprinters took up the slack as the Crimson won seven of eleven events...
...return to two-platoon football further weakened the offensive line--most experienced players went to the defense. But at left guard. neither Joe O'Donnell nor Max Evans could take up the resulting slack and middle guard Dick Berdik was returned to the offensive unit during the Dartmouth game...
...dark purple sphere about the size of a plum, Super Ball has already bounced into millions of U.S. homes, shows no signs of slowing down. McGeorge Bundy bounces Super Balls in his Washington basement, brokers on the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange throw them about the floor during slack hours, Manhattan executives dribble them on their desks, and kids around the country are bouncing them down sidewalks and school corridors...
...Association shut down in sympathy with the Times, New York was left with only the afternoon Post and a spate of third-rate, strike-born tabloids, all inconsequential. Nor do the local radio and TV stations, which have hired some 40 striking Guildsmen, seem equal to taking up the slack...