Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kaunda's colleagues in the fight for independence from Britain. In a recent about-face, he became Kaunda's chief rival for political power. Last week Kapwepwe more than lived up to Kaunda's billing by plunging Zambia into what may well be its most serious political crisis to date...
...confess a crime." Such volunteered statements, the decision goes on to say, are admissible as evidence at a trial. Nor is the inquest likely to raise an issue of double jeopardy, since the charge of leaving the scene of an accident is a different offense (and a less serious one) than negligence...
...suddenly, they caught fire. They won eleven in a row, the longest winning streak in their history. They slumped briefly in midsummer, but they have since rallied to win twelve of 13 games. As the season turns the Labor Day corner and heads into the stretch, the Mets are serious contenders for the National League pennant. Last week they were only 2½ games behind the faltering Chicago Cubs, the leaders of the league's Eastern Division.* Like the fabled little engine that could, they are pulling mightily, and they really believe they can make it. Whether they...
Although spaceflights have detected no life on the moon or Mars, they have nonetheless increased speculation both theological and secular-about whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe. Some of the religious pondering has been a serious effort to prepare for that possibility (TIME, Jan. 24), but much of it-like the subject itself has been rather far out. The two most recent examples come from Europe. In Germany, a Swiss hotelman has published a bestselling book claiming that highly intelligent space travelers visited earth during man's early history and became the prototypes for the "gods...
Enforcing the Freeze. France confronts by far the most serious problem. Price increases have been accelerating ever since the costly wage settlements that ended the May-June general strike of 1968. Before the Aug. 8 devaluation of the franc, price increases reached an annual rate of 6.5% v. a July rate of 6% in the U.S. Devaluation will add at least another percentage point to the inflation rate this year by automatically increasing the price of imports...