Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heavy Guard. For a man of 70 in uncertain health, the 5,941-mile flight to Bogota was an ordeal, and the Pope's aides tried to surround him with every amenity. Paul's compartment in the specially outfitted Colombian jet that carried him on the 11-hr. 50-min. flight from Rome was equipped with commercial aviation's first airborne bathtub -a convenience that even President Johnson's Air Force One does not have...
Roman Catholics who have long com plained that the rhythm method is a highly unsatisfactory means of birth control because it is so uncertain now have added cause for concern. Two em inent gynecologists, one Irish and one Italian, say that when the rhythm method fails, it carries an added risk that the baby will be fatally malformed, suffering from anencephaly-literally, absence of a brain...
...collect Tennessee, Arkansas and possibly Georgia, states in which Wallace and Nixon are likely to cut into each other's vote. Nixon has good prospects in Texas, Florida, Virginia and the Carolinas. But the dominant characteristic of the South this year is that of a region in flux-uncertain, hard to please, and even harder to predict. Therein lies its power...
Underrated. At week's end, as Nixon and Agnew went to the L.B.J. ranch for a briefing on national-security affairs, it was uncertain how much permanent damage to the ticket's chances in November had been caused by the scuffle. Initially, Nixon was forced on the defensive, arguing that Agnew was an "underrated man." Agnew's own acceptance speech was short and almost humble in tone. Later Agnew complained that he was being unfairly tagged as an opponent of civil rights merely because he opposed civil disobedience...
...intended to funnel Federal funds into the schools of the nation's poverty areas. But now, after three years have passed and about three billion dollars have been distributed to local school districts under the title, its effect on the children it was supposed to help remains uncertain...