Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...living is easy these days for Argentina's ex-Dictator Juan Perón, 68. A few political cronies slip into Madrid for a little political plotting, but mostly he just walks his poodle and sits around with his third wife, Isabel. The Argentines seemed content to have him where he is, and Spain's Strongman Francisco Franco has no objection to him. So it surprised everybody when Argentina filed for his extradition on technical charges of "rape or ravishment" for seducing a minor under 16. The girl in question is one he left behind: Nelly Rivas...
Other magazine memorial reprints varied widely in content. The Saturday Evening Post, trapped by irreversible press schedules, had to let two issues go by before it could produce, last week, its first account of the assassination. In 29 pages of special coverage, the Post gathered a host of significant bylines, among them Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (who wrote a eulogy), Atlanta Publisher Ralph McGill ("Hate Knows No Direction"), and former President Eisenhower ("When the Highest Office Changes Hands...
...papers' circulation figures since the strike. On Sundays, the absence of huge weekend editions came to some people as a positive relief, freeing them for other activities. When the papers came back, many readers who were delighted to pick up their workaday reading habits, also found themselves content to skip Sunday, comics...
...puzzling over an architectural model showing a proposed renovation of buildings surrounding Washington's Lafayette Square, across from the White House. As the President fiddled with tiny town houses and scaled-down Government office buildings, Walton apologized for bothering him with a matter of "less than global content." Kennedy quickly reassured him. "Hell," he said wryly, "that's all right. After all, this may be the only monument we leave...
Unlike the cower, says Perry, the buller is close to being "in a strong position to learn content rapidly and meaningfully, and to retain it. I have learned to be less concerned about the education of a student who has come to understand the nature of man's knowledge, even though he has not yet committed himself to hard work, than I am about the education of the student who, after one or two terms at Harvard, is working desperately hard and still believes that collected 'facts' constitute knowledge...