Word: hamilton
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Died. Edith Hamilton, 95, unsurpassed woman classicist, a tall, spare spinster whose love and knowledge of ancient worlds smoldered for 50 years until, at 62, she wrote her masterpiece, The Greek Way, a lucid, highly readable study of the Golden Age, then went onto examine Greece's mythology, its philosophies, and its echoes in other civilizations, and regarded as the high point of her life a 1957 ceremony in which King Paul awarded her the Golden Cross of the Order of Benefaction, the nation's highest honor; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...population growth belies the gloomy forebodings of Parson Malthus, and modern capitalism's increasing ability to adapt itself readily to change has proved that Karl Marx was a better journalist than prophet. Today's U.S. economy would surprise even those who helped to shape its past. Alexander Hamilton would be shocked by the size of its mounting debt, and Thomas Jefferson would frown on the sprawl of the megalopolitan cities that feed it. The new economy has more competition than Theodore Roosevelt would have deemed possible, and more peacetime Government direction than Franklin Roosevelt ever dreamed...
...Arthur. We proudly boast that TIME was the first publication to call international attention to a name now honored throughout the world, Adlai Stevenson. If he can give us the tax system which we can live with, he will be the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton: Douglas Dillon. There are perhaps only a dozen original subscribers to TIME in this room tonight. One of them was a humble priest in Worcester, Mass. In our second or third year, in a moment of youthful folly, we offered for $60 a perpetual subscription to TIME...
...Married. Carol Burnett, 28, TV comedienne; and Joseph Hamilton, 34, TV producer, who divorced his wife of 15 years (eight children) the day before; both for the second time; in Juarez, Mexico...
...they are turning to for many of the answers (though not the decisions) is a new and influential corporate executive who is expected to combine the brains of a scientist with the intuition of a soothsayer: the corporate planner. "Ideally," says Vice President John P. Gallagher of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, "the corporate planner would have a law degree, an engineering degree, and be able to walk on water." That ideal has not yet been reached, but more than 700 U.S. companies now have formal planners -and the idea is so new that 500 of the companies have hired their planners...