Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Callie this year advises the uncertain hostess that U.S. Senators can now be moved up three notches, just below the Cabinet. Where to seat the Budget Director? In the old days, presumably because budget balancing was important, he was No. 14 in line; now he has been dropped to No. 24. Where to put the director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the administrator of the Agency for International Development? Peace and international cooperation are definitely fashionable. They move 26 steps forward to Nos. 19 and 20. The U.N.'s Secre tary-General...
Ending a three-year absence from their official residence, Prime Minister Macmillan and Lady Dorothy moved back into No. 10 Downing Street last week. But if their new tenure was uncertain, there was no mistaking the uproar over the remodeling project-one of the bureaucratic epics of modern British history...
Expansion of the NDEA loan fund and raising the amount available to any one institution rest, of course, in the uncertain hands of Congress. But observers report that sentiment in Washington is more favorable now toward aid to education than at any time in recent years, and officials in the Office of Education are privately elated at the string of successes they have...
...boss of Foote, Cone-Fairfax Mastick Cone, 61-concedes that advertising seems a risky investment because clients are continuously switching and an agency's only real asset is brainpower, a perishable and uncertain commodity. "Our inventory goes down the elevator every night," muses Cone. But he sees a sign of stability in his agency's steady growth, up 40% in four years...
...that forgot to grow up, and a stritch, which resembles a dented blunderbuss and hangs well below his knees. The third instrument is more familiar; it is a tenor sax, and stuffed into its bell is a flute. The musician rocks back and forth on his feet as if uncertain how to begin. Then he makes his decision. He puts all three big horns in his mouth at once, and blows like a whale. What spouts forth sometimes sounds like a bagpipers' band skirling The Campbells Are Coming. But most often the sounds belong uniquely to their maker, Roland...