Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Helms, who made the mistake of questioning some of the rosy statistics coming out of Saigon. In both the Defense and State Departments, many sub-Cabinet-level officials flatly oppose sending as many men to Viet Nam as some of the military chiefs would like, but it is uncertain whether their objections are getting through to the President...
...Soviet dilemma resembles the plight of the American blacks who are contemplating a boycott of the U.S. Olympic team. Both groups of protestors must choose between the uncertain rewards of a controversial political move and the proven inspiration of substantial Olympic success. But the boycott against South Africa's presence has an obvious and specific goal--to bar the country from the Olympics. This gives it a greater justification than the black American protest, which has no motive other than a vague desire to arouse white America's attention to the misery of the ghetto...
...others may be, the overriding enigma for Clifford-and the President-is, of course, Viet Nam. All the signs indicate that Johnson is once more going through the process of preparing the nation for news of a major notch-up in the war. When the announcement will come is uncertain, but it seems likely that Johnson has in mind an increase in troop strength on the order of nearly 200,000 men. That would have far-reaching effects. It would add as much as $10 billion to the $77 billion Defense budget. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills...
...rest of the cast--the characters with which the Author is working--share one general flaw that director Christopher Arnold could have eliminated with a firmer hand. Their readings are all uncertain, with no one quite sure just which words they should be emphasizing, which laughs they should be expecting and which pauses they should be holding. John Brady, as the police superintendent, is particularly afflicted...
Schollander can swim almost any event and it is still uncertain where he will compete today. He holds the American record of 1:41.2 for the 200-yard freestyle. Against Dartmouth on February 17, he swam in the 1000-yard free for the first time and set a Yale record of 10:17.4. By contrast the Harvard record, set by Bill Shrout last Saturday against Cornell...