Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Test Case. For three weeks, the bill crawled along in the Senate while the leaders and the Northern liberals waged an embarrassing battle over the issue. The spectacle was hugely enjoyed by Southerners, themselves too weak and divided to mount their own filibuster. Last week Dirksen, Mansfield and Katzenbach provided what they hoped would be an acceptable compromise. The anti-poll-tax amendment would be dropped. But a substitute clause would direct the Attorney General to file "forthwith" in Federal court a test case designed to outlaw any poll tax whose purpose or effect is to deny the right...
Despite the success of a variety of artificial contraceptives, including "the pills," some medical investigators cling wistfully to the idea that somewhere in the animal or vegetable kingdom there must be an antifertility agent that would be "more natural." Their belief has rested on weak reeds: on every continent, among people of all races, there are numerous old wives' tales to the effect that a particular plant, if its leaves are chewed at the full of the moon or some other arbitrary time, can be counted on to prevent conception...
Harvard's baseball team should notch its fourth Eastern League victory of the season this afternoon when, it meets a weak Brown team in Providence...
Bergman sings very well, but over-acts. Smock acts very well (his recipe for sorcerer's stew should not be missed), but his voice is weak. The rest of the cast doesn't, on the whole, do justice to Conley's script. Eric Carriker is very convincing as one of the robbers, while Glen Buscher is not. The others are nothing more than dull, although it was somewhat unfortunate that Bob Russman's voice was both the loudest and worst...
Stable Prices. These troubles have won Alcoa a reputation on Wall Street as a weak performer, but Harper insists that the company's fortunes should continue to brighten. Reason: aluminum demand is catching up with supply, and ingot prices have finally stabilized (at 24½? a lb.), even though the industry has two more producers and 35% more capacity than when its price troubles began. Aluminum is already a big item in everything from saucepans to Saturn rocket skins, but to advance Alcoa's recovery further Harper is pushing hard to get more aluminum into mass products-tops...