Word: sures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon approach carries other concomitant difficulties. The effectiveness of many South Vietnamese combat units remains in doubt, and no one knows for sure whether they will be able to maintain the present military balance as U.S. troops are withdrawn. One South Vietnamese official recently told Secretary of State William Rogers: "It's like a man learning to ride a bicycle. We think we can do it, but you never know until the man running alongside takes his hand away." Thanks to better training, better equipment and massive support from U.S. air and artillery, the South Vietnamese are improving. But they...
...Joio to write a special work for the sesquicentennial, then hired Eugene Ormandy and his Philadelphia Orchestra to come to Little Rock to play it. She mortgaged a small portion of her land to foot the $60,000 bill, meticulously planned the concert to the last detail (even making sure that none of the musicians was allergic to magnolias). Last week the orchestra performed Dello Joio's suite, Homage to Haydn, and Ormandy himself embraced Miss Peter onstage. She is, said Ormandy, "a new lady in my life, but very close to my heart already...
...longer season would automatically mean more income. But since every concert by every orchestra is a deficit affair, more concerts mean a larger deficit. Los Angeles has expanded its annual schedule from 37 weeks to 46 in the past three years, and the musicians are pushing hard for 52. "Sure, the schedule is murderous," says A.P.M. President Herman Kenin. "But the goal is not 52 weeks but 52 checks. The musician has to pay the mortgage on his house, educate his children and feed his wife all year, not just 40 weeks...
...immunity. Sagan, like most other scientists, believes that the odds are high against life existing on the moon. But he cautions that there is "an exceedingly small risk of possibly great harm" in not maintaining strict quarantine procedures for the returning Apollo 11 astronauts. "Maybe it's sure to 99% that Apollo 11 will not bring back lunar organisms," he says, "but even that one percent of uncertainty is too large to be complacent about...
...structure are ill adapted. Haack estimates that institutional trades now generate 50% of all commissions on his New York Exchange. Whether the exchange can hold this business against rising competition from other markets, such as regional exchanges, and whether it can handle the still greater trading volume that is sure to come in future years, will depend heavily on the progress it makes toward solving its present difficulties...