Word: fractionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before 1958, only a fraction of the Wittelsbach Schatzkammer's contents had been shown to the public, and then only in a cramped, subterranean vault. The Bavarian government decided to bring the treasure out of the dark, spent $250,000 in preparing new quarters in a wing of the family's sprawling Munich residence, which is a replica of Florence's Pitti Palace and a next-door neighbor to the rebuilt Nationaltheater (TIME, Dec. 6). Now-slowly, because it is not much publicized-the Schatzkammer is becoming one of the show attractions of Europe (see opposite page...
...students paying at the full tuition rate) and $5400 (for students paying at the reduced tuition rate) for a full-time appointment. However, all teaching fellows are part-time teachers, since they are also part-time graduate students. Pay for each teaching fellow is calculated as a fraction of $4200 or $5400, usually in terms of fifth or quarters. The average teaching fellow in the humanities or social sciences works two-fifths to three-fifths time; in the natural sciences he works one-quarter to one-half time. To give an idea, one-fifth load is one section...
...spleen transplant between mother and son. The boy, Richard Hill, suffered from a shortage of gamma globulin in his blood, leaving him virtually defenseless against infectious diseases. This shortage arose largely from the failure of his spleen to produce enough of the antibodies that make up an important fraction of gamma globulin. The boy's mother, Mrs. Jacqueline Carver, had a good supply of gamma globulin, and her lymphatic system would maintain it. She could get along without her spleen far better than her son. The operations were performed in June, and the boy has been getting doses...
...basic fact about Latin America is not that the people are excluded from politics but that they are excluded from the economy. A legacy of the Spanish colonial land-holding system, only a tiny fraction of the population share in any form of economic life above subsistence. Prices reflect this stratification. While commodities such as food and clothes are more expensive than in the United States, services are cheap--a maid gets paid $20 a month. Over 30 per cent of the population is unemployed...
...teacher colleges that give no university degrees-a coveted badge of social distinction. In 1962, says Sir Eric Ashby, master of Clare College, Cambridge, "we selected about 33,000 young people to go to universities out of an age group of some 700,000. This represents only a fraction of the pool of high ability in Britain...