Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clinton Clausen before his death (TIME, Jan. 11) was posthumously made public, warmly seconded by Maine's Democratic congressional delegation, led by U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie, a Catholic. In Maryland, Governor J. Millard Tawes (Methodist), under almost as much Kennedy pressure as Mike Di Salle, reluctantly agreed to commit his state delegation (24 votes)-at least for the first ballot-by letting Kennedy run uncontested in the May primary...
...pain of fines, imprisonment and suspension of their papers, Turkish journalists must not print anything that might "undermine financial and economic stability," anything that "belittles" or "insults" a public official, anything "of an offensive nature." If they commit any of these offenses inadvertently, they must print a correction or retraction the same day it is received from the public prosecutor. The correction must run precisely where the original story appeared, and exactly as received. WE ARE LIARS, headlined one Turkey paper above one such handout retraction, THE NEWS WE PUBLISHED YESTERDAY WAS WRONG...
...former first year graduate student in Economics, who had been confined at a Boston mental health center since last November, returned to commit suicide yesterday afternoon near his former room in Perkins Hall. The victim, John P. Skuba of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., a Rutgers graduate, died of a single shotgun wound in the head, according to Dr. John W. Wells, Jr., the University Health Services physican who pronounced him dead...
Breakthrough. In announcing the new index, the Fed pointedly made no reference to the mounting attacks on its pol icy of credit restraint, which many Congressmen contend has sacrificed growth for stable prices. Last week Democrat Paul Douglas' Joint Economic Commit tee of Congress came out with a massive report on "employment, growth and price levels" that criticized the policies of Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. and Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson as "stepping too hard on the fiscal and monetary brakes,"thereby limiting economic expansion. But the Fed's bulletin makes clear that output...