Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: Re your story on the two sumptuous housewarming gatherings in Portugal [Sept. 13]: I am amazed that TIME would have me saying "an earthquake . . . is no reason for me not to go to a ball" without troubling to check the authenticity. For your information, I have never made such...
Picking Up the Pieces. The most disaffected of the McCarthyites cast themselves in the role of both punisher and redeemer. U.C.L.A. Philosophy Professor Donald Kalish, a leader of Los Angeles' Peace Action Council, insists that a Humphrey defeat "must be resounding" so that Democrats will know better next time...
Sir: Senator McCarthy says some sensible things. But he should take his full share of guilt for what happened. For his own ends, intentionally or otherwise, he has encouraged these young people in the highly emotional involvement in public affairs that led them into irrational conduct and the consequent disaster...
While there are personal hardships involved, members of the emigrating churches are convinced that they are obeying God's will in leaving their homes and jobs. They also believe that Southern California has only itself to blame for the imminent disaster. Pastor Theobold despairingly cites "the amount of wickedness...
Now, seven years after the disaster, Grünenthal's executives have been brought to trial. West German government lawyers collected 70,000 pages of evidence and prepared a 972-page indictment in which company officers are charged with personal negligence leading to the marketing of an unsafe and...