Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admits that he is sometimes exasperated when students, faculty and administrators-not to mention TIME staffers-pester him at odd hours with queries, requests, suggestions and sometimes complaints about what TIME has said. How ever, his occasional chagrin disappears when a campus source, trying to put over an idea to TIME, will tell him, as one did recently: "See what you can do, Don. They listen to you there...
...speechwriters and strategists, charged on a television panel show last week that Humphrey had already offered the vice-presidential nomination on his ticket "to every Southern Governor." When pressed as to his source, Sorensen insisted: "I know he has." Which governors in particular? "Right across the board." The idea of Humphrey putting Lester Maddox or Lurleen Wallace as close to the presidency as the proverbial heartbeat is, of course, bafflegab, and Sorensen himself later backed away a bit from his initial assertion...
...ticket construction is an obsessive pastime. Among Southern Governors who are believed to have vice-presidential aspirations are Louisiana's John McKeithen and Texas' John Connally. After considerable comparative shopping, John Kennedy chose a Southerner in 1960. But why not choose Robert Kennedy? Humphrey might be receptive to the idea for the sake of unity; so might Kennedy, if his campaign is faltering, for the sake of his own future. .San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto, who is backing Humphrey, has even proposed a Humphrey-Kennedy ticket for 1968 with the understanding that Humphrey step down after one term...
...fascinated," Thomson explained, "by our idea of exporting benevolence. Before World War II, our relations were on a personal, small foundation scale. But after the war, these private groups still existed but have become very much submerged by the state. We have secularized our benevolence and put it under a strong central government with the flag totally engaged...
...idea appealed to the English almost as much as it did to Harvard: in 1649, a number of Londoners organized the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England (the parent organization of the present Boston foundation). An intensive drive for funds over the entire English countryside yielded 16,000 pounds. But instead of turning the money over to Harvard, the Society gave it to the Commissioners of the United Colonies to distribute. In 1651, as Samuel Morison put it, "President Dunster inquired of the Commissioners whether some small trickle of this silver stream might not irrigate...