Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wary of Recession. On paper, the President's program would combine tax reduction with tax "reform." But there is a strong suspicion that President Kennedy really cares only about the reduction-and that mostly for political purposes. Says one White House aide candidly: "No Administration was ever voted out for running a deficit. But some have been voted out because of a recession." There is also the suspicion that Kennedy considers the reform proposals expendable, included them in his package program only as a sop to Ways and Means Chairman Mills, a longtime champion of real tax reform...
According to the Administration, the troops currently have no "offensive capability" against the United States or Latin America. The Administration is probably right; surely it is in a position to know the truth. But any lack of confidence in these official reassurances, the slight suspicion that the bellicose Senators may be right once again, is the result of unreliable handling of the news during the first Cuban crisis...
...Principle. As for U.S. intentions, viewed with such suspicion in Paris, Monnet reminded De Gaulle that ever since the 1947 Marshall Plan, the U.S. has worked for European union: "For once, the most powerful country in the world has helped others to unite instead of adopting the old principle of divide and rule...
...novel is conventional in form, despite Percy's suspicion that "there is a disintegration of the fabric of the modern world which is so far advanced that the conventional novel no longer makes sense." But his vision of rotting fabric broods over the novel. The hero, a likable, intelligent stockbroker surrounded from horizon to horizon by the quietest of despairs, expresses his predicament with irony: "It is a pleasure to carry out the duties of a citizen and to receive in return a receipt on a neat styrene card with one's name on it certifying...
...Suspicion immediately focused on Ghana's Strongman Kwame Nkrumah, who has conducted a bitter feud with Olympio over control of the powerful, 700,000-member Ewe (pronounced Evvy) tribe, which was split between both countries by European boundary-setters. Twice before, assassins had tried to kill Olympio; each time Ghana's agents were accused. But this time it was Olympio's own zealous economies that brought disaster...