Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cross the President's desk were the resignations of Federal Communications Commission Chairman E. William Henry and Assistant HEW Secretary Francis Keppel. Memphis Lawyer Henry, who as FCC chief since 1963 has stung A. T. & T. with a still-in-progress study of its rate setup but soft-pedaled his predecessors' criticism of the TV industry, is anxious to return to private practice. In three years at HEW, Keppel made its Office of Education the nation's most innovative force in public education (TIME cover, Oct. 15) but ran into increasing political friction in Washington after...
...that special quality that was once the hallmark of great cities: civility in the broadest sense. It takes away less of a person's individuality than most big cities, and gives the individual and his rights more tolerance than any. In texture, it has developed into a soft, pleasant place in which to live and work, a city increasing its talents for organizing a modern society without losing the simple humanity that so many urban complexes lack...
...extended to Poland and Yugoslavia. The sticking point, inevitably, is the war in Viet Nam. Though Lyndon Johnson has drafted a trade bill that would remove statutory tariff restrictions against Eastern Europe, it has been quietly shelved. Congressmen, especially in an election year, do not care to risk a "soft on Communism" label. That leaves Bridge Builder Gronouski frustrated. "This is the time to get into position," he told reporters in Budapest. "If we wait five or ten years, the opportunity may pass...
...moon's surface by Luna 9, reproduced them on a newspaper facsimile machine, and immediately released them-a full 24 hours in advance of the Russians (TIME, Feb. 4). Before that, he was first to announce that Luna 2 had hit the moon, and that earlier lunar soft-landing attempts by the Russians had ended in failure. He has also beaten the Russians to the punch in revealing some of the first details of their manned space flights. In addition, he has cooperated with the U.S. space program by using the Jodrell Bank telescope to obtain telemetry from...
...make The Soft Machine even less coherent than his grotesque Naked Lunch, William Burroughs scissored up his manuscript and pasted it back together higgledy-piggledy before turning it in to his publishers. Result: a hallucinatory little nonbook of babble whose most distinguishing feature is a preoccupation with sodomy and the dubious joys thereof. Burroughs apologists insist that there are plot and Profound Meaning imbedded in the book, but only a cultist will find them...