Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frank O'Connor, 56, New York's city council president, seemed the odds-on favorite after an impressive victory in the city election last November, but has since lost ground by petty partisan bickering with Republican Mayor John Lindsay, and, in any event, carries little weight outside New York City...
...lonely hills northwest of Ann Arbor, Frank Manner stepped from his farmhouse one night last week to quiet his yelping dogs. Off beyond the cornfield, he spied a glowing, "quilted" object-which he later sketched in detail -bobbing over a swamp. After a futile attempt to stalk it, Manner called police, who also saw the apparition...
...Arabs brought some of these finds to Kando, the former Bethlehem cobbler who made himself an antiquities dealer by selling the famed Dead Sea Scrolls. Kando in turn alerted American archaeologists working in Israel, and Harvard's Frank M. Cross Jr. went to Israel to acquire and study the Samaritan finds. Now Archaeologist Cross knows more about ancient Samaritan history than does the remnant of the tribe that still survives...
...afternoon paper, the World Journal, will replace Hearst's Journal-American and Scripps-Howard's World-Telegram & Sun. Editorial boss will be Frank Conniff, 52, Hearst's national editor, columnist and one-third of the "task force" that has won a Pulitzer Prize for its interviews with world leaders. According to present plans, the World Journal will concentrate on its home town and carry more local news than either of the papers it replaces. It is inheriting far more columnists than it can handle, but after trimming the list it will encourage guest columns from public figures...
...undergraduates, W. Frank White '66 and Nwachukwo Azikiwe '68 accepted the task of defining this policy. White admits the inherent difficulties of definition, since "the United States actually had no policy in this area until the late 50's and early 60's." Quoting G. Mennen Williams, Undersecretary of State for African Affairs, White tries to make sense out of America's current policy goals. Most significant of William's points are that the U.S. advocates African self-determination, the solution of African problems primarily through the Organization for African Unity, and a program of aid and trade involving only...