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Word: prove (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York contains all the elements that are directing the course of the 1968 election cam paign. New Yorkers' concern with the quality of life, with impersonal or unresponsive organizations, with law and order-all these are national issues. Historically, New York is a pattern setter. If it should prove ungovernable or explode in bitterness, no other city could feel secure in a time of increasing racial and ethnic polarization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHN LINDSAY'S TEN PLAGUES | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

Muddying the outcome this year, however, are the presidential aspirations of George Wallace-even though no senatorial candidates are running on Wallace's American Independent Party ticket. How those casting ballots for Wallace and Curtis LeMay will vote for other offices, nobody knows. Yet their votes could prove decisive in neck-and-neck contests in seven states-Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma and Oregon. Alaska is also rated a tossup, because of a write-in campaign for 81 -year-old Democratic Senator Ernest Gruening, who was unseated in a primary by Real Estate Developer Mike Gravel. The write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE SENATE: Gains for the G.O.P., but Still Democratic and Liberal | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...complete without a scandal, and this time the rhubarb involved alleged under-the-table payments to U.S. and foreign athletes by rival German track-shoe manufacturers. Rumor piled on rumor: stories told of payoffs ranging as high as $6,500; officials were said to have canceled checks to prove that bribes were paid; several U.S. medal-winners were reported guilty. But rumors the stories remained after the U.S. Olympic Committee investigated and announced that it could find "nothing to substantiate" them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Parade to the Pedestal | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...arrive at the answers, it also suggests that the university should frankly tackle major student concerns: "the problems of sex, the nature of love and the applications of ethics, morality, politics and law to life." This might tax a professor's teaching ability, but it should also prove rewarding. The study recommends that professors' promotions be based on an evaluation of their teaching skill by their colleagues-a rare practice now-as well as research scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Joining the Real World | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

Dutch-born Bishop Simons, who has been a missionary in India since 1935, expects that he will be asked to resign his see as a result of the book, which he wrote out of intellectual conviction. "Having come to the conclusion that I could prove that the Church's belief in infallibility is mistaken," he explains, "I felt I had no choice but to publish my case." The book will unquestionably be studied with care in the Vatican, since Bishop Simons says flatly that "a scrutiny of the traditional arguments seems to prove that the very structure of infallibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Challenge to Infallibility | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

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