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Word: periodic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRONT PAGE. Robert Ryan plays Walter Burns, the tough managing editor of the Chicago Examiner, and Bert Convy plays Hildy Johnson, his top reporter, in this revival of the Ben Hecht-Charles Mac-Arthur saga of newspapering in the 1920s. The play has a certain cornball period flavor, but that just adds relish to a high-spirited and persistently amusing evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 30, 1969 | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...prejudgments are suspect, in and out of court. In any event, the country has a way of educating its Justices?as well as its Presidents?and the Justices, in their turn, have a way of educating the country. A period of consolidation after a decade of hurried innovation may be, as Nixon believes, best for both court and country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A PROFESSIONAL FOR THE HIGH COURT | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

Still, it should not be forgotten how or why the period of intense activity came about. For the most part; it was caused by the default of other branches of Government, lower courts and society in general. When neither the executive nor the legislative branch cared enough about the Negro to guarantee his basic rights as a citizen, not to mention as a human being, the Warren Court outlawed school segregation, setting in motion the civil rights advances of the '50s and '60s. When no other body of Government seemed concerned that city dwellers were made second-class citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A PROFESSIONAL FOR THE HIGH COURT | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...would suggest a youth service program (civilian peace corps, or such) of a couple of years' duration where young people work on socially significant projects while earning pay for it, and receiving at the same time, higher vocational training. After this period only those would go to universities who really wish to do so, while the rest would feel a much greater stake in a society that they helped rebuild. This would also do away with the exemption of college students which, in connection with the war in Vietnam, is behind so much of the student unrest. For example...

Author: By Some CONCERNED Harvard parents, | Title: A PSYCHOLOGIST'S VIEW | 5/28/1969 | See Source »

...This number, however, is greater than the total number of participants because if a persons competes in three sports, for example, he has been included three times in the figure of 1333. From 1958 to 1962, the rates hovered consistently around 1900. Then, for a four-year period, the numbers were all around 2300, reaching a high of 2470 two years ago. The participation of the class of '71, however, dipped to 1621, a 50 per cent drop. This year it's even worse. Unfortunately, there seems to be no reason to expect a turn upwards...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

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