Word: supplementals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intellectual-in-residence." For the benefit of those who accept the theory, he cites Roche's law: "Those who can conspire haven't got the time; those who do conspire haven't got the talent." Last week, in a letter to the London Times Literary Supplement congratulating Oxford Don John Sparrow for his incisive, 18,000-word defense of the Warren Commission Report (TIME, Dec. 22), Roche raised a point that has been overlooked-or ignored-by the report's myriad critics...
Plans to concoct a new money to supplement gold the dollar have been put forward by economists from Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson to the U.S.'s Robert Triffin. They call for some or most of the world's nations to create and regulate an international money that would be handled only by governments, not people. The first tentative steps toward that were taken at last fall's meeting of the 107-member International Monetary Fund. The IMF voted to create an Ersatzgold called "special drawing rights." There is one big hangup: these "S.D.R.s" will...
...elegiac verse, seemingly a ceremonial necessity for poets laureate, does not seem to be his forte. His unofficial effort on the death of Winston Churchill laments that "the route was difficult, and the peak remote" for "the young fox-haired firebrand of debate." That verse won the Times Literary Supplement's nomination for 1965's worst poem. Several years ago, however, Day-Lewis took a step that should prove enormously helpful. As he relates in his autobiography The Buried Day (1960), he refuses to subscribe to a press-clipping service...
...stronger. The elevation of Dwight Ware and George McManama to regular turns has given the Crimson its highest-scoring line, at least against weak opposition like Penn and Sir George Williams. And Bob Higgins, who was an unknown last month, has proven himself a capable goaltender able to supplement December's star, Bill Diercks...
Sparrow's trenchant verdict on the assassination and the countless conspiracy theories that it engendered was rendered in an 18,000-word article in the London Times Literary Supplement. "While the assassination itself has till now remained the focus of attention," he wrote, "future historians are likely to be more interested in its aftermath...