Word: ets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Austria, Walter P. Reuther, Senator Joseph Clark, Mayor Willy Brandt, James Carey, David Dubinsky, Roy Wilkins, Chester Bowles, Kenya Political Leader Tom Mboya, Senator Wayne Morse, Governor Hughes of New Jersey, Robert C. Weaver, Senator Maurine Neuberger, Governor Nelson of Wisconsin, Joseph Grimond, leader of the British Liberal Party, et...
...have not read a German book, and I speak it badly"), once consoled a visiting French intellectual by saying: "You don't know German? You are fortunate in your ignorance." He deplored Goethe. He even changed the name of the Prussian Academy to the Academic des Sciences et Belles-Lettres. Voltaire, before his increasing disrespect for authority led him to fall out with Frederick, wrote a doggerel tribute to him: All the morning the great king...
...trade bill would empower the President to slash tariffs drastically-all the way down to zero on many categories of manufactured goods-in return for tariff concessions by other countries (TIME, Feb. 2 et seq.). Because it cuts far deeper than the old reciprocal trade program that it is designed to replace, the bill was expected to stir up fierce opposition. But last week, as the House Ways and Means Committee completed its second week of hearings on the measure, the opposition seemed more plaintive than ferocious...
...knows, in the company of God in heaven. Only one is an American, Mother Frances Cabrini (1850-1917). A great many more souls are waiting for similar approval.* Last week the Vatican's Polyglot Press released the latest edition of Index ac Status Causarum Beatificationis Servorum Dei et Canonizationis Beatorum, a 391-page Who's Who of potential saints that lists the names of 1,132 dead Catholics who are candidates for the congregation's study...
Since the SEC began probing Wall Street ten months ago, the hot glare of unfavorable publicity has focused almost entirely on the American Stock Exchange (TIME, May 26 et seq.). Last week the spotlight abruptly swung to the Amex's stern older brother, the New York Stock Exchange. After three weeks of deliberation, a federal grand jury indicted J. (for James) Truman Bidwell, 58, chairman of the board of governors of the Exchange, on the charge that he had "willfully and knowingly" evaded payment of $55,808.83 in income taxes for 1956-57. Within minutes of the announcement, Bidwell...