Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LADY IN THE DARK (RCA Victor). A reissue of Kurt Weill's songs from the classic musical psychodrama of 1941. The orchestral arrangements sound dated, and even in her prime (eleven years before her death) Gertrude Lawrence had the usual uncertain wobble in her voice, but her Saga of Jenny is nevertheless galvanic, and My Ship still haunting...
Building Terms. The Subject Was Roses has a somewhat uncertain future...
...well in South Viet Nam that the U.S. couldn't get neutralization even if it wanted it. It would first have to improve the military situation. This means, in effect, urging the South Vietnamese, not to mention the American "advisers," to fight and die with only an uncertain neutrality as the declared prize-a dubious war aim, to say the least. On balance, the State Department and Pentagon are convinced that any agreement to neutralize Southeast Asia, even if one would be concluded, could not be enforced. It would be, in Dean Rusk's words, "a formula...
Gems by Mail. Demand for diamonds has overrun the supply in the last few years, largely because producers do not want to exhaust their uncertain sources at the mines, and dealers like to keep the prices in the way-up-there brackets. Last week South Africa's De Beers Consolidated Mines-which markets 80% of the world's diamonds and sells only when, where, and to whom it deigns-announced that stocks were little more than half as high as a year ago. There have been two wholesale-price increases, totaling 15%, in the past 15 months. Jewelers...
...scientists offer two explanations, both of them uncertain. Perhaps the passage of a satellite's shadow may disturb Jupiter's atmosphere in some way, permitting warmer lower layers to rise upward and be detected from the earth. Or perhaps the interruption of sunlight stops a photochemical reaction in Jupiter's high atmosphere, making it temporarily more transparent so that radiant warmth from below can escape into space...