Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TINY country like Rhodesia seldom gets the world's attention unless it is in serious trouble. And then, too often, the scream of the headlines and the rattle of the bulletins tend to obscure the more basic story of what the country is like, how it got that way, and how it relates to the wider pattern in its part of the world. It was the pressing need for that kind of essential story to be told that brought to the cover of TIME this week the Prime Minister of a country with a population of not much more...
...Seldom this side of Plutarch have a great man's earliest moments been recorded in such pluperfect detail. But then, as Rebekah Baines Johnson went on to explain, her first son came from no common clay. Her matriarchal scrapbook saga of Lyndon's life, from birth (weight: 10 Ibs.) in "the rambling old farmhouse of the young Sam Johnsons" on the Pedernales until 1931, when he went to Washington as secretary to Congressman Richard M. Kleberg, was presented to her son four years before her death in 1958. Last week, New York's McGraw-Hill published Rebekah...
...been taking tranquilizers ever since his heart attack ten years ago, but still doesn't sleep much. "I don't work like you do," he told the newsmen. "In 56 of my 57 years I probably haven't gone to sleep before 1 a.m., and I seldom sleep past daylight. If you had been wrestling with Viet Nam and Panama and all those other problems, then had surgery, you'd be weak...
...Cook & I." That was 18 months ago, and Smith has done little but prepare for U.D.I, ever since. He seldom entertains, usually eats a sparse lunch at home with his wife, and spends as much time as possible inside guarded gates of No. 8's jacaranda-lined grounds. No major legislation has emerged from his tour as Prime Minister, but to promote independence he has flown to London twice, held a national referendum, an indaba (meeting) of African chiefs (all government-paid) and a full-scale parliamentary election (in which the Front won all 50 white seats...
...prisoner's back-anything he can buy low and sell high through corrupt Japanese guards who have connections in Singapore's black market. While senior officers mope around in rags, King wears spruce khaki laundered by hired flunkies. Those who serve him may hate him, but they seldom die of malnutrition; and King measures out his hoarded foodstuffs so shrewdly that the odor of two pan-fried eggs can provoke a moral crisis. Actor George Segal makes King a thoroughgoing conman-all smiles and treachery, eyes darting at every man he meets, ferreting out the Achilles' heel...