Word: protractedness
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After a protracted controversy, McArthur and his assistant, Louis Norris, agreed to resign at Berman's request. Berman declared the debate "a closed issue," but he also proposed new policy guidelines that emphasize "serious, intellectual, disciplined study." The guidelines declare that the endowment "is not interested in random speculation...
The pattern of death in New York's protracted mob war became clearer last week as one of the city's highest-ranking Mafiosi became victim No. 18 in more than a year of gangland slayings. Found on a Brooklyn street with five .32 caliber wounds in his...
George Corley Wallace's double-knit-clad workers do not talk about alienation. Their current word for the mood of the voters is "disenchantment." Another term at the Alabama Governor's Montgomery headquarters is "protracted politics"-not a bad description of Wallace's dogged, divisive presidential candidacy...
The Stanford University authorities struggled with these questions last fall during their protracted investigation of radical Professor of Literature H. Bruce Franklin; they concluded that he had "urged others to violence" during an outbreak of student demonstrations, and so they dismissed him (TIME, Jan. 17). Last week they had to...
Big Al's invitation was based on Segal's growing reputation as a Broadway ghostwriter as well as the fact that, somewhere along the merry way between Cambridge and London, Segal had been selected by Richard Rodgers to co-author a new musical with him. The collaboration produced a musical...