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...annual listings of academic honors in 1924, 16 months after TIME'S first issue, and started using the title Kudos in 1925. The selection of a few dozen from among the hundreds of honorary degrees that bloom each spring has always been difficult, and TIME warned at the outset: "It is not necessarily implied that either the institutions or individuals listed are the 'best...
...Near the outset, the girls begin to yip like Chippewas and throw their skirts in the air while the orchestra saws out some Offenbach, and they kick up their legs in what can be precisely described as the can't-can't. Georges Ulmer, the man who wrote the ballad Pigalle and who acts as M.C., tells a joke: "The Folies-Bergère is an old institution, nearly 100 years old. Of course, lately we have changed some of the girls." He does not say which ones, and without radioactive carbon it is absolutely impossible to tell...
...outset, Percy rated as a distinct underdog to Secretary of State Charles Carpentier, 67, an old-guard G.O.P. workhorse with powerful party backing. Applying a hard sell to his hard run, Percy labeled himself a "dynamic conservative," pasted together an organization from young and energetic Republicans who had been disenchanted with their party after its poor showing in the 1960 elections. He picked up strong financial support from business friends, set out to cover the state in a bus dubbed the "Chuckwagon" that he filled with his wife, five kids and an eight-piece band. He plugged economic development...
...outset, Gabon's 450,000 citizens couldn't have cared less about the coup. But the combination of French steel and Mba's flinty threats of "total punishment" once he was back in office finally struck a spark. In Libreville's La-lala quarter, a dissonant mob formed. Fired up on payday whisky, it marched on the capital's central market, screaming: "Frenchmen go home!" The rioters were finally dispersed in a crunching whirl of para rifle butts...
...outset of the investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren made clear that the panel was not to be a prosecuting agency. The seven members of the commission have matchless reputations for integrity; no one doubted that their examination of the evidence and interviewing of witnesses would be completely fair. Nevertheless it was true, as the Warren Commission conceded in a statement last week, that Oswald never consulted a lawyer before he was shot. Said the commission: "That there was reasonable cause to believe he was the assassin is unquestioned...