Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the President's advisers are urging him to get out and campaign across the country. But others feel that things are bound to pick up for the President after the novelty of the Kennedy-McCarthy challenge begins to fade-or if the fortunes of war should happen to change. As California's Democratic Committeeman Eugene Wyman put it, "The President will wear well with time...
...usual, Williams polarizes his males -the sensitive soul and the brutal stud -and the division is as unconvincing as ever. He also preaches his favorite doctrine of physical redemption: "There's nothing in the world that can compare with what's able to happen between a man and a woman...
Decision-making is its job, but last week the Supreme Court could not make up its mind in two cases. On both, the justices deadlocked 4 to 4, which meant that the court affirmed the lower court without ruling on the merits.* Such ties do not happen often, but there have now been four this term. The reason is that the newest justice, Thurgood Marshall, has had to disqualify himself from almost every case decided...
...TIME is not in the predicting business, many of our stories look toward the future. It seems worth noting that our Essay "The Dollar Is Not as Bad as Gold" (Jan. 12), said that President and Congress would soon remove the 25% gold cover for U.S. currency - and it happened two months later. This week's cover story, written by Gurney Breckenfeld, researched by Kathleen Cooil and edited by Champ Clark, not only tells what is going on but also looks into the future at what might happen in the months and years to come...
Postwar German fiction has its mea culpa school, its black-humor crowd and its how-did-it-happen-to-us hand wringers. Heinrich Boll (Billiards at Half-Past Nine) constitutes a school of his own. His writing skills seem at first oldfashioned, but they always turn out to be just right for hitting his targets: hypocrisy, his countrymen's haste to forget the Hitlerite period, the greed of the fat-cat crowd. In this short caper, set in today's Rhineland, a German army Jeep is burned by an intelligent young soldier with the active help...