Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...television and movies and nightclubs coalesced into one big forum of entertainment, we started our Show Business section; as leisure time and affluence increased in the developed countries of the world, we established a Modern Living section; as more businessmen began to spread their operations on an international scope, we started the World Business section. We have added more pictures inside and have introduced a variety of artistic styles on our cover. For our anniversary issue, it seems quite appropriate to us that we have a cover that looks to the future in space but makes a gentle...
...striking symptom of the much-heralded revival of student interest in social and philosophical problems has been the proliferation of student-edited magazines. In scope they have ranged from purely campus publications, such as Comment, to nationally-distributed efforts such as New University Thought. Their contents have ranged from attempts to influence intraparty politics (Advance), to ideological disquisitions (The Conservative), to high academicism (Adams House Journal of the Social Sciences), to literary works and essays more or less focussed around a religious motif (The Current, Mosaic...
...useful as a cow's fifth teat," and John Nance Garner, Vice President under Franklin Roosevelt, told fellow Texan Johnson that the office was not worth a "pitcher of warm spit." In the days of Richard Nixon, it seemed that the vice-presidency was changing, toward greater scope and power. But Eisenhower delegated to Nixon special roles as Administration spokesman and party leader. Those roles were not inherent in the office of Vice President and left no permanent impress upon it. Politician Kennedy has delegated no such roles to Politician Johnson...
...despite its size, the Commonwealth alone is unlikely to give Britain the trading scope that its economic health requires. Organized in 1931, its trading charter called for the members to send their agricultural products and raw goods to Britain, buy manufactured goods in return. But during World War II, Britain revitalized its farms, reducing its need for imported foodstuff. After the war, as Commonwealth members began to industrialize, they threw up tariffs to protect their fledgling industries. Last year, even while Canadian Prime Minister Diefenbaker was pleading with Prime Minister Macmillan not to join the Common Market, Canada slapped...
That article in TIME on Pope John and the scope of his work is so outstanding that it deserves a place as the Article of the Year; not that I have read all the rest of them, but I can recognize a unique breadth of feeling for the needs and the drifts of the times. I would like to know and shake hands with the chap who did it, but I won't ask any indiscreet questions...