Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Signs of Life. Unsure of their motley staff, editors have thus far been uncertain about assignments-mainly in the city itself, the home town for which the WJT promised exciting coverage. But if local reporting is still weak, there are signs that the paper's reporters are beginning...
Cultural Crisis. Novak believes that the church today faces "a cultural crisis of the first order of magnitude." Understandably, Catholicism's hierarchical leaders are uncertain as to how to deal with this new, nothing-sacred, questioning attitude. While the instinct of many bishops is to return to the traditional methods of control, suppression, denunciation and excommunication, Thorman points out that such a tactic cannot be applied to Catholic intellectuals who no longer fear authority. Yet church leaders fear that total freedom to question and doubt is to open Catholicism's doors to a plague of heresy and half...
...safety gets equal billing with styling and performance. Dual brakes will be standard equipment on the '67s. So will "anchorages" -to which car owners can attach shoulder harnesses, which are supposed to be more effective than current seat belts (when the harnesses themselves will become standard is still uncertain). G.M., Chrysler and A.M.C. will introduce steering columns that collapse, accordion-fashion, under impact, thereby lessening the danger of chest and abdominal injuries to drivers. Ford has a somewhat similar device and, beginning with the 1969 model year, will start producing cars with collapsible front ends designed to crumple systematically...
Election Disruption. The 13,000 irregulars of the Riff and Piff are an uncertain defense force. "You can't take a peasant out of a paddy, give him three weeks of training and expect him to be a red-hot soldier," says one U.S. officer. Nevertheless, supported by Vietnamese army, marine and ranger units, they stage an average of twelve major operations a month against V.C. elements on the outskirts of the city...
Rendell describes his novel thesis as an attempt to "reconstruct from nothing." Because the real significance of the failure of the defensive alliance is uncertain the Soviets and Chinese said almost nothing about it publicly...