Word: janning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Kennedy's death, Moscoso recognized that Johnson would stamp his own brand on the program. Johnson's first act was to bring in Thomas C. Mann (TIME Cover, Jan. 31) as Assistant Secretary of State to boss both the Alianza and the State Department's Latin American end. So far, the difference is largely one of tone. Mann is a pragmatist, a believer in the art of the possible. He has muted the old-style Alliance hoopla for his own soft sell, and encourages such practical reforms as the new computerized tax-collection that helped Mexico...
...educators. S.I.U. was the first university in the nation deliberately to hire visiting professors who were retired or soon to be retired at other schools. Among dozens of such luminaries have been Harvard Astronomer Harlow Shapley, University of Chicago Theologian Henry Wieman and Designer-Dreamer Buckminster Fuller (TIME Cover, Jan...
Comfortingly enough, One Potato, Two Potato is no Hollywood product. A delicate semidocumentary on the indelicate issue of racial intermarriage, it was directed by ex-TV Actor Larry Peerce, 34, son of Metropolitan Opera Tenor Jan Peerce, and produced by a friend and colleague, Sam Weston, 36. The film was shot in Painesville, Ohio, and has no big stars. When the scant $250,000 budget started to run dry, Producer Weston doubled as actor...
...Times correspondent sent over to report the Civil War. Disraeli was only half joking when he said that there were two British ambassadors in every foreign capital, one appointed by the Queen and one appointed by the Times. Its newsgathering apparatus seemed to be privy to everything. On Jan. 17, 1856, for example, the British government had to read the Times to discover that Russia had accepted the peace proposals ending the Crimean...
...demand that the mileage a train crew must cover to qualify for a day's pay be increased from the antiquated minimum of 100 to a new standard of 160. They thus lost potential savings of $107 million a year. The unions, in return, agreed to delay until Jan. 1, 1968, a push for an increase in the rate of pay for mileage worked beyond the 100. They also dropped their demands for a night differential and a new overtime rule. Some 100,000 yard employees will get pay increases averaging 31%. Examples: yard foremen...