Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...competition, in danger of seeing his many and distinguished accomplishments of 23 years in elective office dissipated by overexposure. Even to some of his friends, he seems the eternal boy next door, fated to be jilted again in favor of any sexy corsair passing through town. Except that this time the rivals?Senators Kennedy and McCarthy?are already in town, assiduously awooing. When Johnson renounced his candidacy on March 31, the tears that welled up in Humphrey's eyes could as well have been for himself as for his chief...
...corruption of his spirit. He is still the essentially progressive nontotalitarian liberal." Douglas also argues that Humphrey has been instrumental in liberalizing Lyndon. "It has not been a one-sided affair," he says. Even Dr. Benjamin Spock, a leading antiwar activist, pronounces Humphrey the best of the three candidates, except on Viet Nam, and says that he mistrusts Kennedy's "ambition...
Before Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, much of Newark's Central Ward was a tinderbox waiting for the torch -and in the incendiary aftermath of the assassination, dozens of blazes were set by arsonists. They might have done much worse damage, except that - in contrast with last summer - black slum dwellers raced to help firemen, not hin der them. The major reason was that black militants such as Playwright Le-Roi Jones had reached a grudging armistice with the city's white authorities (TIME, April 26) and passed the word down to the streets: Cool...
...fellowship recommendations, and some of Harvard's most popular professors complain privately of the amount of their time this process consumes. Finley worries that the prospect of writing so many letters scares some Faculty members away from accepting Masterships. Neglecting this unpleasant chore would be tempting, Gill says, except that the letters "happen to be terribly important. In an impersonal world, you can do a lot," Finley says, and Harvard has a record to prove...
LIKE Howard Johnson's 28 Flavors, all the most interesting of the 24 kinds of muffins at the Muffin House are likely to be out of stock. But it doesn't really matter: they all taste the same anyway except perhaps the chocolate chip muffins, which have pieces of chocolate in them...