Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHEREAS: What shall we do in the heat of summer But wait in barren orchard for another October--T. S. Eliot...
...rather than wait until 1965, when his present seven-year term is up and when France's bitterly divided opposition parties may offer a solid front, De Gaulle will probably call an election next spring. By then, Gaullists are confident, they will have arrested France's stubborn inflation and won agreement for higher prices for French farm produce within the Common Market...
...Just Wait & See. Last week Jagan was in London lobbying for independence and some free world investment. He accomplished little. Colonial Secretary Duncan Sandys has already laid down the condition for British Guiana independence: a coalition between Jagan and Opposition Leader Forbes Burnham of the People's National Congress. But that seems a long way off. In talks with British investors, Jagan was less than reassuring: "About my government and my party, it is only when we have independence that the people will know where we stand...
Other unknowns lie in wait. If a new rocket engine fails to deliver a few percent of its planned thrust, the payload that it lofts into space must be lightened. Since every ounce is calculated with exquisite care, this means eliminating some piece of equipment, and little can be jettisoned without profound changes in the whole mission...
...Usually these pieces take the form of semi scholarly comments on Japanese history. "It's my field, after all," he adds with a smile. These articles, however, are only popularizations of ideas conceived when he still occupied a stall in Widener. Original research and serious writing will have to wait until he leaves government service...