Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left no doubt who would wield the power-Mrs. Wallace, third woman Governor in U.S. history,* attacked the Federal Government, equating Washington with Red China, Russia and Cuba. "And always," she said, "the results are the same, a transfer of power from the people to a rapidly expanding central government. That these deeds are done in the name of our federal constitution adds blasphemy to their performance...
...Nationalists ever return. In case he is not, Chiang, now 79, has already made provision for the transfer of power to his oldest son and political heir: Chiang Ching-kuo, 56, Taiwan's Defense Minister. Late last month, at the annual meeting of the party's Central Committee, 600 KMT delegates voted Chiang-and hence his successor-the right to appoint a special national security council with sweeping emergency powers. Such a council would act as a built-in power structure, waiting only for the day when either Chiang or Ching-kuo might decide to activate...
Died. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, 82, Floradora Girl of the early 1900s and central figure in one of this century's most sensational crimes of passion; in Santa Monica, Calif. Sixteen, nubile and stagestruck, Evelyn arrived in Manhattan from Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1901, joined the chorus line, became the mistress of famed Architect Stanford White (Pennsylvania Station), and later married a weak-minded millionaire playboy named Harry K. Thaw-whom she goaded with lurid tales of her escapades with White. On June 25, 1906, Thaw walked up to White in a cabaret, and without a word put three bullets...
...display the changes that occurred in man's interpretation of his deity. At first, the Christian story appears as a happy parable. One early 9th century object produced by Charlemagne's workshop is an ivory plaque symbolic of its time (see opposite page). Christ is the central figure, triumphant despite his torment on the cross. The Second Coming, which some Christians had hoped would take place in the year 1000, appears as a future inevitability to the artist. High in the iconography is the hand of God reaching down to pull men to heaven...
...stir of protest, though such a stir-had it come early enough and had it been large enough-might have bolstered considerably the campaign against the highway. It might still do some good, but most Faculty members apparently care little that the expressway may go through the center of Central Square and displace between 3000 and 5000 people (about five per cent of Cambridge's residential population...