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...Dodd and which must now draft a code, maintains that it is "a terribly difficult assignment. I'm not even sure that it's possible." History supports his skepticism. Previous scandals, while firing reformist zeal, have resulted in little action. The Senate ethics committee itself is a monument to congressional distaste for self-regulation. Created by a 1964 resolution, the committee had no members for a full year and was virtually moribund until the Dodd investigation. The ten-point platitude adopted in 1958 as a code for the entire federal establishment is little more than an inside joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Smogbank on TheHill | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

Police said that all 17 were members of a small group of Negro terrorists calling themselves the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), the same organization that, billing itself as the Black Liberation Front, had cooked up a cabal two years ago to blow up the Statue of Liberty, the Washington Monument and the Liberty Bell. This time, according to police, under the cover title of the Jamaica Rifle and Pistol Club, RAM members were drawing up a plot to assassinate N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins, Urban League Executive Director Whitney Young Jr. and at least three other moderate Negro leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Busting RAM | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

...here we are." He was mobbed by the public and feted by the great (he had to borrow a suit to meet the President of France). President Calvin Coolidge sent a U.S. Navy cruiser to bring him home, and was waiting for him at the foot of the Washington Monument when he arrived. U.S. Ambassador to France Myron Herrick spoke for most when he declared: "He stood forth amidst clamor and crowds, the very embodiment of fearless, kindly, cultivated American youth-unspoiled, unspoilable. A nation which breeds such boys need never fear for its future." Young Lindbergh seemed engagingly modest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: LINDBERGH: THE WAY OF A HERO | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

...Many Downs. They do get on harmoniously, although somewhat in the relationship of a national monument and its custodian. In a profession where flamboyance and arrogance are often the hallmarks of talent, the diffident Haitink is an anomaly. A short (5 ft. 6 in.), quiet man who likes to take long birdwatching rambles in the woods, he is still slightly awed by the Concertge-bouw's tradition of polished, mellow musicianship and its line of distinguished conductors, particularly Willem Mengelberg and Eduard van Beinum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conductors: The Diffident Dutchman | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...Angry Arts Against the War in Vietnam"--a group of Greenwich Village intellectuals staged six different "carnivals of death" on floats around the Park. One show consisted of poetry readings delivered from a stage decorated with sculptures of mutilated babies and severed hands. The whole thing was entitled, "Vietnam Monument, Designed by Johnson, McNamara...

Author: By W. BRUCE Springer, | Title: A Black Carnival in the Park: Hippies, Housewives, Husbands Join in an Ungainly Alliance | 4/20/1967 | See Source »

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