Word: pro
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...modernized term for World War II's famed gremlin); another was having trouble finding the word aelurophile (it is a variant of ailurophile, meaning lover of cats). Ofttimes the department is called upon to settle arguments-last year two college roommates quibbled about who makes more money, pro footballers or auto racers (the top stars are about even-in the six-figure range). Both lawyers-and prisoners-by the score request citations of cases referred to in TIME'S Law section, and Medicine brings a flood of requests for further information on stories. Most new products we mention...
...share jurisdiction over school integration-Attorney General John Mitchell and Secretary Robert Finch of Health, Education and Welfare -have made some alarming and ambiguous moves. Their effect is to raise the question: Is the Administration pulling back from the scheduled pace of desegregation? The rhetoric, to be sure, remains pro-civil rights, and in some respects the Administration has been both progressive and innovative. Finch, earlier thought of as the Cabinet liberal, may yet prove correct when he promises that the Administration will maintain pro-integration pressure. For now, however, the signs point to submission to a Southern political strategy...
...round. Society columns vibrate to the tempo of glittering embassy dinners, chic Georgetown cocktail parties and white-tie soirees at the White House-but few of Congress's leaders are there. Instead, unpretentious, homebody lives are the preference of the Agnews, the McCormacks, the Dirksens, Senate President Pro Tern Richard Russell, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, House Majority Leader Carl Albert and House Minority Leader Gerald Ford...
...five girls who attended the cookout are uniformly bright, efficient, fascinated by politics and cultishly pro-Kennedy. None is strikingly attractive, and as a group they are hardly the sort that older men would invite for a weekend of dalliance. From the beginning, they have intended to go to the inquest. Explains one: "My God, can you imagine what the reaction would be if we refused to attend? The great coverup, right? We'll all be there, if for no other reason than to defend the reputation of Mary Jo." All of the girls were scheduled to spend...
...Russian) on walls, the fact is that the Russians do not entirely trust Husák. He is in an unenviable position: rejected by the reformers because he replaced Dubček, disliked by the Czech majority because he is a Slovak and hated by the orthodox pro-Soviet elements (who imprisoned him for eight years) because he is a nationalist who believes in limited reforms...