Word: slacking
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When Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev slowly emerged from his TU-104 turbojet in Bulgaria last week, he seemed to lack his usual bounce. He had lost weight, the skin on his neck and face was slack, his eyes lacked sparkle. It took him a full day to recover anything like his old roadshow form. Then, in the Black Sea city of Varna (formerly called Stalin), he planted two small trees, after which he handed the shovel to startled Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. "I have helped build Communism," joked Nikita. "Now you've got to work. This...
...next hitter, Jerry Siack, slapped a grounder to center. It should have been a single, but the ball took a kangaroo hop over Gavin Gllmor's head. Slack settled for a triple, but he scored on an error by shortstop Terry Bartolet...
...Crimson attack was stymied by the princeton defense which covered Williams and Watts like a blanket. The midfielders were nuwilling or unable to pick up the slack and move in to shoot them selves, and the result was let' argic, ineffective offense...
...anticipated. Dillon conceded that when a nation's industrial capacity is running full blast and consumer demand is strong, budget deficits "almost invariably lead to a rise in prices." But, said he. "I want to point out that the effect of a deficit on a slack economy is totally different from the effect of the same deficit on a full-employment economy...
Betting that there was not enough left of last fall's New England crop to take up the slack in East Coast markets, the bulls at the Mercantile Exchange contracted to buy 10,000 carloads of Maine potatoes at prices ranging from $1.95 to $3.20 per hundredweight for delivery May 14. By then, the bulls believe, potato prices will be up to $5 to $6 per hundredweight, leaving them a fat profit on their future contracts. The bears, who sold the bulls their contracts, are betting just as firmly that there are plenty of spuds in Maine and that...