Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year Lyndon Johnson promised a program to protect the nation from large-scale crippling strikes. He has yet to propose such legislation. Last week, faced with one of the nation's recurring rail crises, he pledged at a press conference to propose a workable formula that would exclude compulsory arbitration so hated by labor. Next day the President produced a plan that would astutely avert a strike-without eliminating compulsory arbitration...
...promised by his act, he has been in the catbird seat right from the beginning. Repeal of his act was tacked on as an amendment to the important investment tax-credit bill* sought by business and the Administration. Long simply faced down Senate custom-which dictates that a chairman protect committee bills from outside amendments-and allowed a plethora of fellow Senators' pet projects to be tacked onto the bill. When accused of "hinting" that he was deliberately tying up the tax bill as a strategy to save his Campaign Fund Act, Long boasted: "I did not hint...
...ordered the guards doubled at Tatoi, telephoned his mother, Queen Frederika, in the nearby Athenian suburb of Psychiko, to gather all the royal kin she could locate into her house. He then telephoned officers in his palace in Athens to send out a force to rescue Arnaoutis and protect the Queen Mother. He ordered the Navy to put to sea as many ships as possible...
...encouraged to take the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. As interpreted by Opus Dei, the vows for lay members are somewhat less strict than for priests. Whether or not they have taken the vows, members may own their own cars and homes and salt away enough money to protect themselves from financial ruin, but they are expected to turn over all "excess" income to the organization. They may marry and have children ("Chastity does not mean celibacy"), but they must remain faithful to the "spirit" of chastity. Single members, moreover, must agree to go anywhere that Opus Dei sends...
...Trustee Morris Iushewitz, acknowledging the strong hand of S.U.N.Y. President Samuel Gould, insists that "We are not manipulated except for the good of the university, and in that sense I don't mind being manipulated." Alabama's self-perpetuating board is an example of how trustees can protect a school and a strong president, Frank Rose (TIME, Apnl 21), against the pressuring tactics of hostile Governors such as Lurleen and George Wallace. Notes one Alabama professor: "Wallace just couldn't influence that board on political matters if he tried...