Word: unpopular
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President Kennedy has read and endorsed the fact-finding team's blueprint. The immediate hurdle is Bolivian President Paz Estenssoro's willingness to risk the first politically unpopular step of making the mines more efficient. The miners are well armed and defiantly opposed to wholesale dismissals. However, President Paz Estenssoro, the man who led the 195 2 revolution, realizes that his movement will fail unless Bolivia solves its problems, and soon. Even the tin miners' Lechin, now the nation's Vice President, may understand that time is growing short. Visiting in Washington six weeks ago, Lechin...
...popular Paul-Henri Spaak. who quit as NATO Secretary-General to take over leadership of the Socialists, could whip up the listless crowds. Spaak's electioneering Socialists blamed Premier Gaston Eyskens and his Catholic-backed Social Christians for the Congo debacle, and attacked Eyskens' sensible but unpopular economic austerity program-price of the lost Congo- because it meant higher taxes and reduced pensions. Belgium's voters were ready to criticize politicians of every stripe, in a sullen style reminiscent of the ugly, empty mood of Frenchmen in the last stages of the Fourth Republic...
...York City's currently unpopular brand of virus x is unusual mainly in its treacherous, delayed-fuse character. Dr. Diehl's case began in mid-February with a sore throat that burned all the way down into her chest. The next day she went to her office, but felt seedy, flushed and achy. It hurt her to move her eyes. Her temperature went up to 100.5. Dr. Diehl prescribed aspirin for herself...
...year ago, the Air Force was talking fairly freely about its Samos program. Samos was quite frankly designed to be a "spy in the sky"-a satellite carrying telescopic camera equipment that could take pictures of the whole earth. But then came the U-2 incident, sky spies became unpopular among diplomats (if not among military men), and mum became the word for Samos. Last week, the most the Air Force would admit, even unofficially, was that the orbiting Samos contained "test photographic and related equipment...
Student Council members also concern themselves with an imagined obligation to represent undergraduate opinion in each of its actions. The Council is justified in polling students and recording results in reports to University officials on unpopular foods, library complaints, or tutorial preferences. But a Council member cannot become preoccupied, as many do, with reflecting the opinion of his constituents. He must "deliberate on the general welfare," if you will. The Council must be a source of original ideas, not simply an agency the processes grievances...