Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Huge Lottery. In Costa's hands now is the fate of Brazil at a time when the country stands at a critical point in its growth and development. It can either slip back almost effortlessly into its old "land of tomorrow" ways or, if Costa carries the torch, finally begin to live up to its prophesies and take its place as a power and mover in Latin America...
Lyndon Johnson is now mulling over his choice of a successor to Justice Tom C. Clark, who will soon retire from the Supreme Court. For Johnson, the task not only gives him a chance to consider the qualifications of various men; it also forces him to consider what the fate of his Administration could be at the hands of the court ten years hence. In choosing, there are precedents and unwritten rules aplenty to go by, but practically all of them have been broken in the past, and easily could be again...
...freshman class has 300 places, and Radcliffe based its 350 admissions on the number of girls who have accepted in the past. "If all 350 came, I don't know what we would do," Dean Stimpson commented. The number who accept will determine the fate of the more than 200 transfer student applications and the small waiting list...
Only last month a California court tried to answer such questions in the nation's first A.I.D. criminal case. At issue was the fate of Christopher Sorensen, 6, a product of artificial insemination to which his mother's sterile husband, Steelworker Folmer J. Sorensen, had agreed. After a 1964 divorce, the boy lived with his mother, who bitterly refused any financial aid from Sorensen. When Mrs. Sorensen became ill and applied for welfare funds last year...
...strengthened competition. Most railroad men assume that all three will eventually be included in another merger under consideration, that of the Norfolk & Western and the C. & O.-B. & O. But the ICC, maintained Clark, "erred in approving the immediate consummation of the [Penn Central] merger without determining the ultimate fate" of the smaller roads...