Word: ets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...introduce the magazine's excellent World War II coverage, and to devote an entire issue to John Hersey's report on Hiroshima. Shawn is now handicapped by the fact that most of the writers (Thurber, E. B. White, Wolcott Gibbs, Clifton Fadiman, Joel Sayre, Alva Johnston, et al.) and cartoonists (Peter Arno, Helen Hokinson, O. Soglow, Gardner Rea, et al.) who made The New Yorker famous have either died, wandered off to the exurbs, or become infrequent contributors. E. B. White's civilized despair and gentle celebration of nature is now rarely to be found...
...Et Tu. In Denver, Judge Joe Rawlinson was sued for divorce by his wife in his own domestic-relations court...
Trujillo's turnabout was a nose-thumbing answer to the U.S. Government and the Roman Catholic Church, which have been pressing him to democratize his regime (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.). In effect, Trujillo said to each: If it is democracy you want, let us start by restoring the rights of a group you dislike...
...week in a widespread, nonviolent protest the likes of which the U.S. had never seen. In the eleven weeks since four young Negro college students staged the first sitdown demonstration against segregation at the lunch counter of a Woolworth five-and-dime store in Greensboro, N.C. (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.), the lunch-counter movement had spread through the moderate border states and the diehard Deep South like a dry-summer forest fire in a stiff breeze...
...demurral. Said Biologies Standards' Dr. Roderick Murray: "No company has yet filed a complete application with all the required data." What he meant was that the Government, once burned when hasty licensing of Salk vaccine producers was followed by the disastrous Cutter incident (TIME, May 9 1955 et seq.}, is now twice shy about licensing an oral vaccine. Main concern is that the weakened viruses sometimes revert, in the human stomach and intestines, to a form that is more likely to cause paralysis in test monkeys. Baylor University's Dr. Joseph L. Melnick settled a years-long...