Word: alters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only event about which Brooks is unsure is the dive. Pete Alter will definitely leap and twist, but the second spot could be filled by either John Friedman or Corky Vines...
Johnson's formula would not alter the traditional unit-rule system by which a candidate gets all of a state's electoral vote regardless of how small his popular plurality. Thus a nominee could still conceivably get a majority of the nationwide popular vote and yet lose the election. However, since it would make modest improvements without involving drastic change, there is a fair chance that this amendment will win the two-thirds majorities in Congress necessary to send it to the states for ratification...
Second, the gamble-fund students may have subtly helped alter the whole atmosphere of Harvard admissions. "There was some question several years ago," says Dean Glimp, "whether Harvard was going to become just a 700 SAT score college. But a program like this makes a virtue of weak credentials you can understand on other grounds...
...without consulting them. The committees undoubtedly will try to make McNamara's life difficult early in the new year, when he brings his fiscal 1967 defense budget to Capitol Hill. But, as in past fights over bombers and bases, Congress will find that it has little power to alter McNamara's decisions and even less inclination to deny him the $1.7 billion he will request for the new bomber...
Notre Dame Law School Dean Jo seph O'Meara offered another way out. In a recent comment on Jacobellis, O'Meara urged the court to restore local option in obscenity cases and "recognize the jury as the authentic alter ego of the community, reflecting its morals and mores more truly than even the wisest of judges...