Word: personal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea caught on. For TIME'S editors, the selection of the person or persons who rated the title became a high point of the journalistic year. For TIME'S readers, the selection became something of a challenge. For four decades, the year-end mail has brought ever-increasing numbers of reader-selected candidates. This year, as the sampling in the Letters column suggests, the variety of choice is greater than ever. Nominations have come in from all over the world. They range from Senator Robert Kennedy to Presidential Candidate Eldridge Cleaver, who is now a fugitive from justice...
...campaign. He was determined not to let the $1,000-a-plate banquet at the Sheraton Plaza degenerate into a wake. After expressing the Kennedys' gratitude to the "finest and dearest friends of our family," he gently needled his mother Rose, introduced her as a "shy and retiring person," as evidenced by her frequent appearances on NBC's Today show. Listening to Ted, a Boston politician said sadly: "He could have been the nominee this year and if he had, he would have been elected...
...What existed was the consciences of those people who undertook the responsibility of fulfilling the aims which induced the armed forces to lead the Greek people to revolution. As regards the democratic spirit in the Cabinet, you may collect information from any source, and if you find any one person who can tell you that an opinion or at titude has ever been imposed on the Cabinet, I permit you to call me publicly a dishonest...
...signed the Fifth Institutional Act, giving him full dictatorial powers in "defense of the necessary interests of the nation." The act, the fifth of its kind in the last four years, gave Costa e Silva the right to close Congress, rule by decree, cancel the political rights of any person, declare a state of siege, dismiss public officials, waive writs of habeas corpus, and permit the seizure of assets of those who illegally enriched themselves...
...Harvard's income distributions differs from the rest of the country. A number called the Gini Index shows how unequally the total goods of the nation are divded up among the total population. The most the Gini number can equal is 1. If the number is 1, then the person in question has all the goods in question (in this case, representation in Harvard's student body). For Harvard, the Gini Index is .84. For land-holding in fedual England, the value was .65. This means that Harvard students are a more economically elite group when compared to the whole...