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Word: apartness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allowed $720 in earned income without suffering any reduction in the maximum federal subsidy of $1,600. (The $720 constitutes what the government considers the cost of working, such as transportation, clothes and lunches, for a year.) For a family of four, the descending scale of federal subsidy-apart from any state payment-would work this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Toward a Working Welfare System | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

Within two weeks after set sail the London Sunday Times's round-the-world yacht race last October, Donald Crowhurst's 41 -foot trimaran, the Teign-mouth Electron, had started falling apart. The lacing on the boom snapped, the port forward hatch sprang a leak, and then his generator went out, leaving him without electricity for three days. While his boat disintegrated with the pounding of heavy seas, the sailor's sanity, strained as it was by the loneliness of the solo odyssey and haunted by the specter of fail ure, also began to fall apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stress: Mutiny of the Mind | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...Newport Beach, Wayne also makes it livable for the most number of people. Out in Newport Bay bobs his boat, Wild Goose II. Lesser men would have a yacht; Wayne's craft is a converted minesweeper. His house overflows with memorabilia and sentimental tributes from institutions as far apart as Good Housekeeping and the U.S. Marines. His collection of Hopi Indian kachina dolls is probably second only to Barry Goldwater's. Though the family car appears to be a standard Pontiac station wagon, it was custom built. "I wrote to the head man at G.M.," he beams, "and said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: John Wayne as the Last Hero | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...people a day-and often unbelievably late. It is not unknown for a 40-mile trip to take three hours. In the last two months, the L.I.R.R. has had three accidents, in which 175 riders were injured. An M.T.A. executive admits that "The damn railroad is falling apart." Eugene Nickerson, the chief administrator of Long Island's populous Nassau County, last week asked President Nixon to declare Long Island a disaster area eligible for federal funds to improve L.I.R.R. service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: A Model of Inefficiency | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...clear-cut American military victory. On campuses across the country, a young political amateur named Allard Lowenstein was meticulously organizing a network of students to a force that would decisively help unseat the President and carve a niche in history for Eugene McCarthy. In cities a continent apart, two maimed minds were moving nearer their appointments with infamy. And in Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley was making himself a target for protest by ordering his police, eleven days after Martin Luther King's assassination, to "shoot to kill" arsonists in time of riot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Teddy White Runs Again | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

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