Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Now Richard Goodwin, a former speechwriter and aide to L.B.J., has taken such recollections several steps further. In his memoir of the 1960s, Remembering America (Little, Brown; $19.95), Goodwin writes that Johnson was at times literally crazed and that his episodic madness helped propel the U.S. into "a needless tragedy...
Jerusalem refuses to confirm or deny the satellite program. According to several U.S. space experts, a single satellite could give Israel coverage of key sites at least twice daily. On the other hand, the skies in the region are often clogged with dust, and satellites are ineffective in detecting night...
When Nelson Mandela turned 70 last month, his visitors were surprised at how remarkably fit the black nationalist leader looked. Under the rigid discipline he has imposed on himself during the quarter-century he has been imprisoned on a life sentence for sabotage, he rose every morning before dawn for...
The controversy over Senator Quayle's military service has recalled one of the shabbier aspects of American involvement in Viet Nam. Middle-class youngsters often managed to duck military induction, while society's less privileged members did most of the fighting. Some 76% of the 2,150,000 servicemen sent...
After Folkways Founder Moses Asch died in 1986, his company might have slipped off too. Folkways was an ideal more than a thriving business. The Smithsonian Institution wanted to keep the label going under its own aegis, but the proposition was financially daunting. So Bob Dylan and Folklorist and Smithsonian...