Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Much to Bear. While the outcome of Beirut's government crisis remained uncertain, France moved to expand its interests in the Middle East. President Charles de Gaulle, who last week stirred outpourings of gratitude from Arab states by embargoing the sale of French arms to Israel, assigned an emissary in Beirut to tell the Lebanese: "France would not be indifferent in case of a threat of Lebanon's integrity and sovereignty." The statement served to spotlight De Gaulle's efforts to restore France's influence in the troubled area...
...right. The U.S. is in grave crisis, yet the President-elect has revealed little of his design; he has remained immured in his Manhattan headquarters, working long hours but making few public statements. Washington waits this week with quiet anticipation for the installation of Richard Nixon, uncertain about the tone and thrust of his presidency, but looking happily forward to the fun and fanfare of the celebration...
After ghetto rioting and Negro militance began to turn popular opinion against the black cause, Johnson's response was uncertain. He continued to fight for civil rights legislation, and his successes will be a durable monument to the will of a Southerner who had earlier been less than zealous on the Negro's behalf. Still, in 1967, when Hubert Humphrey urged a "Marshall plan" for impoverished areas following the Detroit riots, Johnson quashed that kind of talk. And when the Kerner Commission last year made ambitious recommendations for helping the Negro-findings that could easily have been mistaken...
Monogamy, in fact, turns out to be biologically "unnatural." As Fox puts it, "Man is by nature promiscuous, but works hard in the opposite direction." How then did the family structure evolve? The answer, suggest the ethologists, has a great deal to do with the uncertain history of the development of man's only major biological specialization-his brain. From a scratch start with the simians, this marvelous cultural device grew threefold in man in one million years-an evolutionary rate of unprecedented rapidity. Asks Fox: "Did the growth of the brain lead to the capacity for greater social...
...rough common denominator" of those affected seems to be that all of them ate the scalloped potatoes served in the Union Tuesday night, Dr. Postel said. He said that the Health Services were "uncertain" about the cause of the epidemic, but that tests were being run to determine whether or not it was food poisoning...