Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...away fields as nuclear physics, optics and electronics. "They are of the technical age," says Piri Halasz, who wrote the story, "but they remain artists primarily." Researcher Leah Gordon found Nuclear Engineer Earl Reiback's projection technology so complicated that she brought along Science Researcher Sydnor Vanderschmidt to help her interview...
Ever since the Federal Government adopted Financier Beardsley Ruml's ingenious invention of tax withholding back in 1943, the system has been about as unassailable as motherhood. Government officials love it, since paycheck deductions help disguise the size of the tax collector's take. Most taxpayers also approve of withholding as a relatively painless way of parting with their pelf. Only a non-politician of rare courage or naiveté-or both-would dare challenge it. Sure enough, a non-politician par excellence, California's Governor Ronald Reagan, did precisely that last week as he marked...
...more stable heroes in the New Left's pantheon are Staughton Lynd, 38, a pacifist and professor of American history at Yale between speaking engagements, and Tom Hayden, 27, an S.D.S. founder who now heads the independent Newark Community Union Project, a small but energetic program to help the poor. Both attracted a lot of attention a year ago when they went on a self-appointed peace mission to Hanoi. While the New Left scorns conventional politics, it has set up an ambitiously titled National Conference for New Politics, which has backed candidates in local elections, and helped...
Only the Score. Back home, the Latin American Presidents helped spread the message of self-help that Lyndon Johnson had so effectively implanted in the face-to-face sessions. Breaking his custom of addressing his countrymen only once a year, Mexico's Gustavo Diaz Ordaz went on the radio as soon as he returned home to stress that Latin America must bear the chief responsibility for its own future. Said President Fernando Belaunde Terry to his fellow Peruvians: "The declaration of Punta del Este is only the score. Success will depend on how we play...
Boarding the plane at Burlington, Vt., Mrs. Marlene Chasnov, 23, had an uneasy feeling that her 19-month-old son Craig was ill. And as the plane approached New York, the child began to have convulsions. "I stood up and screamed for someone to help me," she said. "There was only one passenger who didn't look at us as if we had leprosy. He got up and put his thumb in Craig's mouth to keep him from swallowing his tongue. Craig bit him and took a hunk out of his thumb and the man said...