Word: democratization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Divinity graduate student who was board chairman of the National Student Association when its CIA link was exposed last year; blue-eyed Ann Hart, 20, a diminutive (5 ft., 102 Ibs.), self-described "dropout and cop-out," who is the daughter of Michigan Senator Philip Hart, a Johnson Democrat; and freckled-faced Mary McCarthy, 18, who was a Radcliffe sophomore until she took an authorized student sabbatical last month to work for her father's nomination...
...extraordinary measure of trust and confidence not given to ordinary members of society," its very existence testifies that Senators can be, and have been, molded from crumbly clay. A product of more than two years of intermittent work (interrupted by necessity of investigating unsavory charges against Dodd and Missouri Democrat Edward V. Long), the Senate code, drawn up under the auspices of Mississippi's John Stennis, had at least one easily discernible merit: it was much more sin ewy than a bare-bones code dropped almost casually into the House of Representatives' hopper a day earlier...
...budgetary procedures; the inviolability of the state constitution; a ban on sales of liquor by the drink; an end to billing poll-tax payments; an end to racial segregation in jails and prisons. Has the Old Dominion gone liberal? Decidedly not, insists the chief architect of change, Byrd-Democrat Mills Godwin, 53, Governor since 1966. "It's realism...
...countered the critics. Texas Republican John Tower congratulated Johnson for "doing what a number of us have been saying for 2½ years - that you cannot win a war by gradual response, that the only way to achieve military victory is through massive air and sea superiority." Crusty Ohio Democrat Frank Lausche did not defend the President so much as attack Fulbright. "The only way we can reach a decision is for the Senator of Arkansas to present a resolution to the Senate," he proposed. "Until he does that, I suggest that he quit talking...
...outgoing president, Philadelphia's Dr. William Likoff, announced a conference of leading physicians, lawyers and theologians, to be held late this month in Bethesda, Md., to discuss the legal, ethical and practical aspects of transplants. And then there is the resolution, proposed to the Senate by Minnesota Democrat Walter F. Mondale, to set up a presidential commission to study and evaluate scientific research in medicine. In some surgeons' minds, Mondale's proposal has blurred into the fearsome specter of having a commission decide on each individual transplant and establish the death of the donor before the transplant...