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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nepotism remains particularly virulent. Kennedy cited the case of a recent U.S. effort to bring Vietnamese war veterans to the U.S. to study at American universities, and learn about the country. "We asked the government of South Viet Nam to select some qualified men," Kennedy recalled. "The list they gave us consisted mainly of relatives of government officials." So a new list was demanded. "But all the new applicants," said Kennedy, "had been made to promise a percentage of their scholarship payments to the officials who chose them...
First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of the Fashion Foundation of America. That would be General William Westmoreland, 53, U.S. commander in Viet Nam and the leading figure on this year's list of best-dressed men. Westmoreland was chosen, said the Fashion Foundation's Charles Richman, because "when you see a military man in a really trim uniform, a thrill goes through you-that's what uniforms are for." The general has yet to be told of his latest victory. "After all," Richman explained, "there...
...Department has seen fit to immortalize five Chief Justices of the Supreme Court: John Jay, John Marshall, Harlan F. Stone, William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes. Now the P.O. has decided to honor some Associate Justices who were every bit as great as their chiefs. First on the list: Oliver Wendell Holmes, who died in 1935 at the age of 93. Come March, his wise and bearded visage will look out from a new 15? stamp...
Similarly, the reader of nonfiction in 1922 kept ahead of the novel nut. H. G. Wells's The Outline of History and Hendrik Willem Van Loon's The Story of Mankind led the nonfiction list that year. The top novel was If Winter Comes, by the leading bleeder of the year, A.S.M. Hutchinson, whose This Freedom was No. 7, followed by Edith M. Hull's The Sheik. Sinclair Lewis' great period piece, Babbitt, did make the first ten, sharing last place with a forgotten field of corn called Helen of the Old House, by Harold Bell...
...Diet and Health, by Lulu Hunt Peters, ruled the nonfiction list; Shaw's St. Joan made eighth place. In fiction, Edna Ferber's So Big was that big-but E. M. Forster couldn't make the first ten with A Passage to India. The 1925 fiction list gave first place to A. Hamilton Gibbs's Soundings, while Lewis' Arrowsmith took seventh place. But even then, Scott Fitzgerald's reputation was not strong enough to install The Great Gatsby among the top ten. Also missing: Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy...