Word: presentability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...context in which it appeared, the quotation implied that I favor continued political patronage in the Post Office Department and had argued at the White House against President Nixon's proposal to convert the present postal system into a public corporation...
...present Saigon staff includes a varied crew of correspondents. Bureau Chief Marsh Clark is a Middle Westerner who was political editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat before coming to TIME. Wallace Terry, who will soon go to Harvard as a Nieman Fellow, is an ordained Disciples of Christ minister. William Marmon, a Virginian with a Princeton degree, once taught school in Greece. John Wilhelm, a Florida native, used to be a TIME correspondent in Washington. Chicago-born Burton Pines studied at the University of Wisconsin and was working in Heidelberg on his Ph.D. in history when he was hired...
...Nixon approach carries other concomitant difficulties. The effectiveness of many South Vietnamese combat units remains in doubt, and no one knows for sure whether they will be able to maintain the present military balance as U.S. troops are withdrawn. One South Vietnamese official recently told Secretary of State William Rogers: "It's like a man learning to ride a bicycle. We think we can do it, but you never know until the man running alongside takes his hand away." Thanks to better training, better equipment and massive support from U.S. air and artillery, the South Vietnamese are improving. But they...
...never let one judge do anything. So if one judge in three is defective, which is probably about par for the American system, there are in Denmark or Holland or Sweden two other judges to offset him." - "I am no longer sure that the Fifth Amendment concept, in its present form and as presently applied and interpreted, has all the validity attributed to it. I am talking about requiring a defendant to testify...
...present divorce bill introduced by Deputy Loris Fortuna, 45, a happily married Socialist, would "moralize the existing situation." Fortuna's grounds for divorce are impotence, incurable mental illness, a lengthy prison term, exploitation of wife or daughter for prostitution, attempted murder by one's spouse, desertion or a five-year separation. Opponents deride the measure as a "patente di Casanova" or a Casanova's lovemakmg license. Fortuna contends that the lovemaking already occurs and his bill would sanctify common-law situations...