Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slow-motion diplomacy in Paris last week was not for lack of topics to discuss. But such is the basically an tagonistic state of Franco-German relations these days that any discussion between Europe's two most fidgety "friends" almost inevitably produces major disagreements. What saved last week's semiannual session was Charles de Gaulle's grand finesse...
Rising Tempers. If so, the accord is hardly apparent. A.T. &T. Chairman Frederick Kappel has denounced the inquiry as "totally unwarranted and unnecessary," predicted that it will be "painfully slow and costly," with the "telephone-using public the loser...
...five-mile depth might be as high as 265° F., and a passenger vehicle would need an immense cooling system. Finally, because a perfect vacuum could not be created within the tunnel, and because the vehicle would probably have to ride on some sort of rail, friction would slow it down-leaving it with insufficient kinetic energy to complete its trip without a source of additional power. In a long-distance Washington-Moscow tunnel, which at its midpoint would dip some 716 miles below the earth's sur face, the problems would surely be magnified beyond solution...
...this, and more, went into the pages of Papa Hemingway, Hotchner's story of the novelist's final years, which Random House plans to publish in April. The book bristles with intimate details of Hemingway's slow deterioration. On reading the galleys, Mary says, she suffered "a traumatic shock." In a letter to Random House Board Chairman Bennett Cerf, she accused Hotchner of "shameless penetration into my private life and the usurpation of it for money." She demanded a long list of changes in the book. The author and the publisher agreed to many of them...
Although the Administration devoted a very large portion of the Honolulu conference to this central problem, the success of Premier Ky's rural pacification plans remains doubtful. According to Mohr, "after five years of war, the allies are starting from scratch in this field, and that progress must be slow." The allies will have to destroy the Viet Cong's powerful political organization before they can begin to build a viable political structure, and to date they have never ventured into areas under heavy Communist influence which comprise the largest part of South Vietnam...