Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Andorra is a play critics are likely to say that sort of thing about productions of. I can't and tend to think the poor timing...
...TINY country like Rhodesia seldom gets the world's attention unless it is in serious trouble. And then, too often, the scream of the headlines and the rattle of the bulletins tend to obscure the more basic story of what the country is like, how it got that way, and how it relates to the wider pattern in its part of the world. It was the pressing need for that kind of essential story to be told that brought to the cover of TIME this week the Prime Minister of a country with a population of not much more...
...Canberra was called in to take aerial photographs of the grave sites. Newsmen promptly asked Detective Superintendent Arthur Benfield whether some kind of black cult could have buried its victims in a magic pattern or symbol, visible only from the air. "I like black magic," Benfield parried, "but they tend to make me put on weight." Black Magic is a well-known brand of English chocolates...
When President Kennedy set the moon journey as a national goal in 1961, the cost was estimated at $20 billion; the estimate is now $40 billion. Though the contracts tend to be fairly small at this stage, businessmen expect the cost of exploration on the moon to rise to similarly huge proportions. "Getting there will only be the starting point," says Martin Executive C. A. Harrison. And the first starting point at that. G.E. already has on its drawing boards an unmanned Mars explorer, and Boston's GCA Corp., with $1,700,000 from the Government, is even...
Ponderous Deliberations. Railroad men tend to blame lengthy merger proceedings on the ponderous deliberations of the ICC and the federal courts, a process that can take upwards of five years. In its defense, the ICC cites the enormous complications of amalgamation. ICC Commissioner Kenneth H. Tuggle points out that railroad mergers involve hundreds of millions of dollars and can determine the economic development of a region for decades to come. Says he: "It takes time to listen to the grain people, the milling companies, the commuters, the mayors of cities, the Governors...