Word: tamping
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...President would be better advised to tamp down hostilities across the board. That could mean quietly seeking to bring Viet Cong representatives into the preparations for the transition from military to civilian government in Saigon. This proposal is unlikely to get very far as long as the United States continues to cultivate Premier Ky's advice on military and pacification policy. More important, the United States should openly demonstrate to Hanoi that it emphatically does not insist on a pro-Western government in the South for the future and does not wish to destroy the North in the name...
...ways, it was an oddly anticlimactic one, for the crowds at Czestochowa were not nearly as large as had been hoped-or feared. Church officials had predicted 700,000 pilgrims, while Communist authorities, concerned that the demonstrations might fan the coals of antigovernment resentment, had made elaborate plans to tamp down a turnout that they believed could top a million. Two major football games were scheduled to siphon off Poles who might otherwise make the pilgrimage. And more than 300,000 workers in the nearby city of Katowice turned out-on government orders-to attend a patriotic rally, while...
...project proceeded and was eventually completed as the dozer came to level the road, and the councilman came to dump two truckloads of sand for the workers to spread and tamp. The drained mud dried in the sun and was covered with sand and urban community development gained another adherent. Sunday came to a close. The workers congratulated themselves on a job well done, the councilman busily shook hands, and the Peace Corps Volunteers went for a beer...
...speculation got out of hand on Wall Street? Many Wall Streeters fear that in some areas it has. The stock exchanges, acutely aware of the rising fever in the big bull market, are doing what they can to tamp it. The New York Stock Exchange announced last week that it will tighten up its requirements for getting a stock listed. The American Stock Exchange, for the first time in its history, put a ban on stop orders-automatic orders to sell a stock once it reaches a specified price during a decline-on all round-lot transactions...
...told the Vietnamese commanders that they would be seized for insubordination if they continued to fight; since the French still control the rationing of arms and oil to the Vietnamese army, the commanders had to obey. French colonial infantry and tanks rumbled out into the streets of Saigon to tamp down the battle. Off to Freedom Palace went French Commissioner-General Paul Ely to caution the Premier: "You are trying to seek a decision by force. You must not do it. You must only seek a settlement by political means...