Word: namee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impossible for me to nominate one Man of the Year, so I'll have to name two: Dr. Norman Borlaug, the agricultural scientist who has developed a dwarf wheat that can give mankind a 20-year respite from famine; and Dr. Alan Guttmacher, head of Planned Parenthood-World Popu lation, which hopes to avert this famine by curtailing population growth...
...past four years, Karamanlis has lived in Paris in a comfortable Bois de Boulogne duplex on funds supplied largely by wealthy Greek industrialists, but his name and words still have a magic effect in Greece. Bluntly calling the colonels "idiots" and "putschists," he blamed them for the Cyprus debacle and warned that their continued rule could lead to chaos and a rebirth of Communism in a country that "twice almost became the Viet Nam of Europe." He called on the colonels "to recognize their duty" and resign. Said he: "Greeks will not allow the maintenance of dictatorship under whatever form...
...girls a generation ago, the most hoped-for present at the top of Santa's bag was a doll. It still is. But nowadays, helped by batteries, every Jack and Jill must be capable of doing its own thing. "Baby Crawl-Along" lives up to her name, scoots across the floor on hands and knees. No sooner does "Tubsy" touch the bath water than she starts splashing. Tubsy is an angel compared with "Li'l Miss Fussy"; she dampens her diapers, then throws a tantrum, crying and kicking until she has been changed. "Baby's Hungry...
...which Professor Oliver E. Byrd grades solely on the number of abstracts of articles in medical journals his students turn in -and he tells them how many abstracts will make an A. He has abolished examinations, gives one test that includes multiple-choice items asking, for example, to "name the required textbook in this course." He bans note-taking in class because it doesn't allow the students to become "intellectually involved with me as I talk." Learning should be "an enjoyable and even thrilling experience," says Byrd, who normally gives about 80% of his students...
Imprisoned for political offenses under Louis XV, Francois Marie Arouet changed his name to Voltaire in order to make a fresh start as a writer. The Rev. C. L. Dodgson used the pseudonym Lewis Carroll because he thought it beneath the dignity of a clergyman and a mathematician to write a book like Alice in Wonderland. Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) and Lucile-Aurore Dupin (George Sand) used men's names because they felt women au thors were discriminated against in the 19th century. These days, pseudonymity is again in vogue, but the reasons are hardly as compelling...