Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Naroyan (250 pp.; Viking; $3.95), is a very funny book that generates the driest kind of laughter about man, that figure of serious fun. The story's uncertain hero is a printer in a small Indian town who bats out jobs on an ancient press but finds his real pleasure in running a kind of literary salon whose major figures are an unpublished poet and a jobless journalist. Slam-bang into his nerveless world crashes a huge, careless taxidermist, a man who is physically powerful and morally indifferent. He moves in on the printer, pays no rent, entertains...
...mountainous Morocco a respected King died, and a politically uncertain new King succeeded him. Morocco's list of state visitors, past, passing and to come, was a small but significant measure of the new stature of Africa in the world's eyes. Russia's President Leonid Brezhnev had just left; Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito would soon be arriving aboard his state yacht; President Kennedy's personal representative, Averell Harriman, flew in from London; U.S. Special Emissary G. Mennen Williams was slowly working his way up from the heart of Africa...
...NDEA "is bound to come up," Pusey said, but it is uncertain just when it will be considered. Unfortunately, it may have to wait until the next session, he added. "The American Council on Education is supposed to say what the universities want, but we're all ready to testify," Pusey said...
...present uncertain whether the Crimson will be permitted to share the Eastern crown with Yale and Navy--each team lost one EISL meet, but Harvard swam one fewer meet when Cornell was snowbound and had to break their appointment in Cambridge. But the team title in the Easterns, if there were such a team title, would almost certainly come home to Cambridge...
...Kennedy welfare program. Although he insisted in his message to Congress that the plan is not socialized medicine ("Every person will choose his own doctor and hospital"), Kennedy did not convince many unconvinced legislators. In the face of opposition by the American Medical Association, the bill has an uncertain future...