Word: unevennesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam itself. In view of that fact, Premier Nguyen Khanh set out at week's end to reshape his Cabinet with an eye toward a more unified war effort. As U.S. Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor flatly put it last week: "The status of the pacification program is uneven." As far as real pacification was concerned, this was not only a euphemism but an understatement...
Their long, uneven sound...
While Sawyer's Hamlet is uneven, it is nonetheless an impressive start. Properly sporting a beard (which many Hamlets neglect), he looks right for the part, although I have yet to see the fat Hamlet that Shakespeare himself specified. His performance is a great improvement over the one that Fritz Weaver wheezed his way through on this same stage...
Luck & Layoffs. Vickers is fond of saying that "success is 921% luck -and the rest is hard work." He worked hard to bring about a merger nine years ago between his Sperry Corp. and Remington Rand Corp., but the marriage has had uneven luck. Remington Rand attracted him because it was such an early leader in the computer field that its Univacs were once synonymous with computers. Like many companies, however, Sperry Rand found it easier to make than to market a good product. Cracks the departing Louis Rader: "Whoever said that if you build a better mousetrap the world...
...records behind. Last week the Government reported important gains in retail sales, inventory buying and capital spending. While businessmen last February budgeted a 0% increase in capital spending for 1964, the Commerce Department reports that they now plan a 12% gain, to almost $44 billion. The benefits will be uneven; the U.S. economy is so varied that some regions of the country are clearly doing better than others. A comparison by regions...