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Word: jans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Nixon [Jan. 24] wanted them and now he has them: Viet Nam, ghettos, taxes, inflation, France, Russia, Cuba, gun control, hunger, nuclear nonproliferation and strikes. Also, he faces added worries because: 1) the majority of the voters rejected him, 2) he must live up to his promises of a modern Shangrila, and 3) he must accomplish all this with a fresh Cabinet and a Vice President who is the biggest joke in the history of American politics. Due to these factors, Richard Nixon should become the most prayed-for President in our nation's history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 7, 1969 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...proud black man, who was a ghetto orphan at six, but now surpass at least 97% of whites in education and income. What I resent is that when you publish a "Black and White Balance Sheet" [Jan. 24], you do not also explain that according to the 1960 census, a black man with four years of college can expect to earn less in a lifetime than a white who just finishes high school. What does this tell us about working hard, being clean, getting an education? Isn't this proof of how racist the system really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 7, 1969 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...hard to imagine a more bizarre example of justice distorted than the action brought against IBM by the U.S. Government [Jan. 24]. Although the case is not unique in the history of antitrust suits, it serves to dramatize the subtle but steady deterioration of the notion that ability and competence are a blessing, not a curse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 7, 1969 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...worried about Mr. Giovanni Agnelli [Jan. 17] dashing here and there through a frantic 36-hour day. He'd better get rid of that Ferrari and drive a Fiat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 7, 1969 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...memo to the designers: Better get back to the old drawing board and quit trying to redo Pat Nixon [Jan. 24]. I predict that increased exposure to her tasteful grooming is going to send not a few medallioned, chain-dangling, flour-faced, sequin-eyelidded, thigh-exposing adult females back to their full-length mirrors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 7, 1969 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

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