Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Televised Presidential press conferences were a bad idea to start with. Now Kennedy is complaining that these weekly conferences do not give him a chance to argue his views on key issues and win enough support to move a sluggish Congress. In this he is correct. It is thus encouraging that he may supplement the weekly sessions with a series of fireside chats. With luck and some thought, the chats will replace the TV conferences altogether...
While the world outside burst into uproar, the Congo itself received the news with sluggish calm, as if Lumumba's death was to be expected. There was some scattered violence-but not the widely predicted blood bath. In Léopoldville, Lumumba fans rioted for a night, and somebody cut a man in half. In Bukavu, drunken Congolese soldiers seized a Roman Catholic priest, cut off his ears and then beheaded...
...amazed at the flood of tourists that flocked in to see for themselves (150,000 last year). But they were shocked to discover that their Western visitors considered their best hotels none too good, and their second-best downright deplorable. The rooms were stuffy, the beds hard, the service sluggish, and there were no stoppers for the bathtubs, grumbled the European and U.S. visitors...
...muse of the movies. When business is bad, she is invoked by producers who hope that commercial sex will bring the customers back in slavering hordes. This fall, what with the special distraction of politics and the usual competition of new television shows, movie business has been sluggish. Reaction: a demi-epidemic of pictures about prostitution, the most severe of recent years. Now showing in the U.S.: Never on Sunday, Butterfield 8, Girl of the Night, Port of Desire, Rosemary. And last week Suzie Wong, the biggest (it cost $4,000,000, runs 129 minutes) and possibly the dullest...
Upturn in '61. Looking over the economy's resiliency in the face of sluggish business, the Commerce Department's chief statistician, Louis Paradise, predicted that the business slowdown will end and a fresh upturn will begin after mid-1961. "I don't think it's at all clear at the moment that we are headed for any serious downturn," said Paradise. Paradise's views were echoed by George Champion, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, who will take over as chairman Jan. 1. He sees the U.S. economy undergoing a "mild readjustment" that should...