Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second thought: perhaps a permissive social attitude toward homosexuality could serve as an element in the population-control picture over the long...
Catastrophe. In a sense, the Nixon Administration brought last week's ruling upon itself. Last July, Nixon settled upon a desegregation policy that would concentrate upon progress through court orders rather than through Washington's second available weapon, the withholding of Health, Education and Welfare Department funds from noncomplying school districts. In August, HEW Secretary Robert Finch, supported by Attorney General lohn Mitchell, granted 33 Mississippi school districts a grace period of three months, until Dec. 1, to adopt a HEW-drawn plan for desegregation. Actual integration would have been delayed even further...
...life. Edward Kennedy enjoyed considerable public sympathy-a TIME-Louis Harris Poll showed. Since then, the Senator has kept silent about the case and has worked, through his lawyers, to alter the ground rules of an inquest into the death. Ted Kennedy has paid for his silence. A second poll last week found that Americans are markedly more skeptical about...
...Sherman Cooper of Kentucky has been getting no answers to his letters to Postmaster General Winton Blount; when Blount invited Cooper to his office recently to talk over a Post Office problem, Cooper refused to come. Colorado's Peter Dominick is still seething over a contretemps with a second-echelon Treasury Department official, and even Karl Mundt of South Dakota-a staunch Nixon loyalist-complains of the "remoteness" of Administration staffers. The President himself angered many Republican Senators of every political hue. They could rarely...
...pleas from Jordan radio to boycott the election, 10,000 of the 34,000 eligible Arab residents of East Jerusalem, the Jordanian sector of the city until 1967, showed up to vote in municipal elections. The Arab turnout helped return moderate Mayor Teddy Kollek to office for a second term. Kollek was thought to be in trouble because of an effective whispering campaign, sponsored by hard-lining Jewish religious leaders, that he was soft on the Arabs. But the shirt-sleeved mayor was supported by an estimated two-thirds of the Arabs who voted...