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...Fistfights. New Mexico, which has only two Representatives, bucked the stability syndrome by voting both incumbents out of office. Republican Manuel Lujan Jr. upset five-term Democratic Representative Thomas G. Morris mainly on the basis of local economic issues. Republican Edgar F. Foreman, 34, overturned Democratic Representative E. S. Johnny Walker, a member of the House Armed Services Committee. In his political past, Foreman has mainly attracted attention by getting into fistfights with political foes. This time he managed to keep his temper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HOUSE: The Year of the Incumbent | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

Typical of the married women who sought (and were granted) an abortion on psychiatric grounds was the 36-year-old wife of a factory foreman, who already had three children. To the hospital board, which included a psychiatrist, she explained: "My last pregnancy was a mistake. My husband and I knew that having another child would strain me to the limit?or beyond. I've already had to have some psychiatric help, partly because our eldest boy is a problem, and I just can't face any more burdens. Another child would shove me over the brink?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Progress Report on Liberalized Abortion | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...Diego Rockets instead of going to Mexico. The tallest man on the starting five was 6-ft. 8-in. Spencer Hay wood, a 19-year-old sophomore from the University of Detroit. The other starters included a 24-year-old Army captain and a 28-year-old rubber-company foreman. And with only three weeks to prepare for the Olympics, the makeshift U.S. squad hardly seemed a match for taller Russian and Yugoslavian teams that had been playing together ever since the 1964 Olympics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Seventh Straight | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...psychotic ward. He claims that they not only refused, but retaliated by forcing him to spend a few days-naked -in a chilly cubicle with a stone floor, known as "the hole." When New Yorker Sullivan was ordered to increase his work output one day, he turned to his foreman and said: "I quit." He spent two weeks in solitary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Draft: How The Resisters Fare | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...industry, it is not only a matter of getting people to work whose tribal ethics disdain labor or money. "Africanized" companies have other personnel problems. Where once an African hand would take orders from a white, he now loathes doing so from a black foreman of another tribe. Too-youthful management also goes down hard with tribesmen accustomed to the rule of the senior elder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON TRIBALISM AS THE BLACK MAN'S BURDEN | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

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