Word: ticklishness
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...passage of months took some of the sting out of the scandals, and last week Dilworth found his way out of another ticklish situation: he had just achieved a hiatus in a bitter 4½-month strike by the International Association of Machinists against Yale & Towne, lock manufacturers. Basking in this glow, Dilworth announced his forthcoming resignation as mayor, preparatory to declaring for Harrisburg next month...
While the U.S. almost certainly will resume nuclear testing in the atmosphere as soon as it can get ready, one ticklish problem has remained unresolved in the two months since President Kennedy ordered the preparations to proceed: with the blasts growing bigger and the world more worried, where can the tests be held...
Still Friends. Through it all, the manufacturers face the ticklish task of continuing business as usual with their suing customers. To do this (and to free its other executives from long hours in court), General Electric last week set up a special department to handle claims. Both G.E. and Westinghouse have indicated that they would welcome reasonable out-of-court settlements...
Last week's most ticklish problem for the General Secretary was steering the Nominations Committee through the final nominations for the 100-member policy-making Central Committee and the six presidents. The result: a Central Committee still dominated by North Americans (21) and West Europeans (26) but with 18 Orthodox members and 28 Asians and Africans. The new presidents: the Most Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsey,- Archbishop of Canterbury; Pastor Martin Niemoeller, World War I submarine hero, president of the Evangelical (Lutheran) Church in Hesse-Nassau, Germany; Presbyterian Layman Sir Francis Ibiam, Governor General of the Eastern Provinces of Nigeria...
...practicality. Students range from sharp new college graduates to seasoned foreign businessmen and rising Army colonels. To earn Wilson's degree of Master of Public Affairs, they spend hours in seminars, work summers in Government agencies. The goal is a graduate trained to use academic tools on ticklish public problems-from birth-control legislation in Connecticut to cannibalism in the Congo. Just that sort of activist Wilson alumnus is now hard at work at the middle levels of U.S. policy and diplomacy all over the world...