Word: personal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over the past four years, the number of pictures that TIME regularly runs has jumped by 20%, to nearly 100 an issue, and our increased use of color has compounded the problems faced by Drapkin and George, who head a 19-person department. However, covers like this week's on American farming, the work of Senior Writer George Church, always make the extra effort worthwhile. The photographs, both color and black and white, bring that extra dimension to the story that Drapkin is seeking...
...then murmurs as she walks away, "Looking good, looking good." She watches State Senator Emanuel Gold playing touch football and gets bopped on the head with the ball. And from the podium at a rally, Queens Borough President Donald Manes says, "She'll make a good Congressman ... woman ... person ... whatever." Replies Ferraro: "I'll take...
...letter denying any guilt. "When this tragic event took place, I was thoroughly examined," he wrote, "and exonerated of any blame." Michaelides tried to discredit the Bruce family in the letter and blamed them for his own legal problems. He claimed his wife "was a criminally mistreated and unhappy person." He accused her mother of "vicious and dehumanizing" verbal assaults and said her opposition to the marriage demoralized Alexandra. He threatened: "If a more equitable approach to my case is not adopted in the near future, I have no other recourse but to use publicity by furnishing evidence...
...said Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the multimillionaire inventor of dynamite, six years before his death at 63 in 1896 and eleven years before the inauguration of what has become the world's most honorific-and occasionally quixotic-award. Since 1901 a five-person Norwegian Nobel Committee has bestowed gold medals bearing the motto Pro Pace et Fraternitate Gentium (For Peace and Brotherhood of Nations) and cash awards ranging from $30,000 to $173,700 to 59 men, five women and eleven organizations. Nineteen times the committee made no awards at all - of ten because of wars more terrible than even...
Historically, the choice has tended to fluctuate between the idealistic and the more or less pragmatic - saints or statesmen. It has also reflected the wish of Nobel, who specified that the recipient be "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." The first winners were Switzerland's Jean Henri Dunant, founder of the International Red Cross and originator of the Gene va Convention, and France's Frederic Passy, a noted pacifist who convened...