Word: chosenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FICTION 1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week) 2. The Chosen, Potok (2) 3. The Eighth Day, Wilder (7) 4. A Night of Watching, Arnold (4) 5. The Plot, Wallace (3) 6. Washington, D.C., Vidal (6) 7. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (5) 8. Night Falls on the City, Gainham (8) 9. A Second-Hand Life, Jackson 10. An Operational Necessity, Griffin (9) NONFICTION...
...people bother to count up the sportsmen who have been unbothered by the jinx. They were chosen for their excellence and they continue to display the qualities that put them on the cover. Latest on that long list is Yachtsman Bus Mosbacher, who appeared on the Aug. 18 cover. After Bus sailed Intrepid to four straight victories over Australia's challenger Dame Pattie, we learned that his crew had hung copies of the cover portrait belowdecks. With proper nautical aplomb, they sailed right into the face of the cover-jinx myth...
Successful Simplicity. As his field commander, McNamara has chosen husky Brigadier General William Ekman, 54, a bayonet-hard combat officer who led parachute assaults during World War II and was an original leader of the Green Berets. Though he has never previously grappled with civil rights or the law, Missouri-born Ekman (West Point, '38) knows how to face down segregationist landlords. "He looks on his new job as another battle," says a friend...
Since the program has been successful in Washington and Maryland, McNamara and Ekman have chosen California as their next prime target. There, 102,000 servicemen live off base, and 32% of the housing near bases is segregated. At the same time, property owners in other states also will begin to feel pressure from Ekman's office. The lesson of Maryland is already rubbing off on landlords. "Every week thousands of voluntary units are turned in," exults Ekman...
...relatively unknown quantity to students and faculty. "Before his name came up," said Allan Mann, editor of U.C.L.A.'s Daily Bruin, "99% of us had never heard of him." Yet U.C.L.A. Student Government President Joseph Rubinstein considered it "a healthy sign that the regents have chosen an administrator-now we'll get things done." A faculty advisory committee reported that it was "happy" about the selection. No stranger to contentious factions in Government, Hitch has little apprehension of the potential frictions he will have to contend with at Cal. "If you find a university that is not striking...