Word: scratches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freedom, or License? Sir: Scratch one more American university from the shrinking list of free academic institutions! If Illinois' priggish President Henry considers ex-Professor Koch's condonation of sex , breach of academic responsibility [April 18], he joins a troop of travelers along the road to unreason...
...struck the political spark is balding Aime Forand, 64. One of 16 children born to a New England loom fixer, Aime Forand quit grade school to help support his blind father ("I know what it means to scratch"), went on to become a Democratic Congressman from Rhode Island. For 22 unspectacular years, Forand was barely noticed in Washington-until he suggested that the social security system be expanded to cover health insurance for the aged. Forand's plan: boost social security taxes ¼% for employees and ¼% for employers, use the funds to finance surgical costs...
...keeping melodrama afloat at all costs and his not knowing that too many wrinkles spoil the plot sink what starts off as a good realistic thriller and what, as staged by Windsor Lewis and acted by Lloyd Nolan, Alfred Ryder and others, remains a good naturalistic production. Although to scratch any of the play's characters is to find a stereotype of stage and sea, their talk is effectively racy and their mutineering instincts show promise. The trouble, in the end, is that they mutiny on the author. The play closed at week...
...independence for Guinea, making it the only African state to secede from De Gaulle's French Community. Petulantly, the departing French took everything-the telephones and electric-light sockets, typewriters, chairs, tables, even the government records-leaving Guinea (pop. 2,800,000) to start building a nation from scratch...
...Washington Irving's tale, Tom Walker, Yankee miser, accidentally kicks up a skull in the woods and is admonished by a guardian devil named Old Scratch. His wife loses body and soul to Old Scratch, but wily Tom sells his soul only, and for hard cash. "Lend the money," the devil suggests, "at 2% a month." "Egad," replies Tom, "I'll charge...