Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outlaw beer and whisky. In Tripoli TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott discovered that "up" and "down" elevator buttons had been covered by tape to obscure the offending English words. All foreign-language street signs were removed. Because the menus must be printed only in Arabic, waiters in hotels must translate aloud the list of dishes to non-Arabic-speaking diners. To their great embarrassment, hotel guests are confusing the Arabic equivalents of "ladies" and "gents...
...Ralph Gerard, a University of California biologist who helped devise a new science curriculum for California schools, wondered aloud: "Should both views of the origin of man be presented, and the children allowed to decide? Should a scientific course on reproduction also mention the stork theory...
...dream all began with the vision of innocent sharing of places at the medieval wooden Advocate table and at the seminar table of Lowell's Tuesday Chosen. Began of winter evenings reading aloud, of long intense discussions of tradition and iconoclasm, of who's breaking into print and why, of our own ambitions and crippling incapacities, of our competition and heroes and of what must be done...
...that one Nixon staff man wondered aloud: "If we see a set of sideburns on someone around here, we start wondering where he's going." But the cause of whiskers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is not entirely lost. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Savile Row-tailored Democrat who is Nixon's urban affairs adviser, is definitely long about the ears. Defying all auguries, he was promoted last week to the post of Counselor to the President and given Cabinet rank...
Kill or Be Killed. "Why did I do it?" he wondered aloud after his arrest. "I don't know." Pilot Cook thought that Minichiello had suicidal tendencies. Stewardess Coleman said Minichiello "wanted someone to come out to the plane so that he could kill them or be killed himself." Perhaps the troubled Marine, whose mother and sister live in Seattle, wanted to see his ailing 80-year-old father, who returned to Italy a year ago. If that was his aim, he chose an irrational way to achieve it. Italian authorities announced that Minichiello will stand trial for kidnaping...