Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Switch in Gender. If age, diabetes and a heart pulsed by a pacemaker keep Rojas Pinilla from running in 1974, Maria Eugenia would most certainly pick up the ANAPO banner. There is some question whether Colombians would vote for a woman; famous women in Latin America tend to be the mistresses of famous men. But a surprising number of Colombians, when asked about a woman President, told TIME'S David Lee: "Ah, but Maria Eugenia is muy macha"-a switch in gender of the word describing a virile...
...year-old Earl of Lindsay, a member of the Queen's Body Guard for Scotland, was fit to be tied. He fired off a letter to Martha ("I take it that it is your considered opinion that I should remain seated during the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner") and followed it up with a statement to the press: "I feel she had to be put in her place. There is always hope she may learn some manners. She is a stupid woman. If she is going to shout her mouth off like that, she is bound...
...last week, two American guards stepped forward and raised the gold-starred red flag of China over the United Nations Plaza. Only a bevy of photographers witnessed the historic occasion. Flanking the new banner were the flags of Chile and Colombia -reflecting Peking's cabled wish to be known as China, People's Republic of, rather than as the People's Republic of China. When the Chinese take their place this week, the U.N. for the first time will be able to claim realistically that it represents fully 95% of the world's population...
Nonetheless, one year after Allende began to lead the way down his cherished "road to socialism," the parade behind him has grown a little ragged. Allende still stirs enthusiasm, to be sure. One Santiago newspaper last week applauded in red banner headlines: YOU'RE GOING GREAT, CHICHO, YOU'RE GOING GREAT. Those who are happiest about where "Chicho" (an affectionate nickname) is headed are the hundreds of thousands of Chilean peasants and wage earners who were left out of the modest prosperity that the copper-rich country enjoyed after World War II. But Chile's broad middle...
Despite his nebulous and often contradictory position on foreign policy, in his hard hitting domestic program, he successfully reconciles McGovern the idealist and McGovern, the pragmatist. Campaigning under the lincoln green banner of Robin Hood, he proposes a tax system to "take from the rich and give to the poor" and does everything but call President Nixon the Sheriff of Nottingham. His program includes excess profits tax, an end to oil depletion allowances, a realistic minimum income tax, an increased tax on millionaires, and better consumer protection...