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...readers were baffled by the word glitch in one of our moon stories (it is a modernized term for World War II's famed gremlin); another was having trouble finding the word aelurophile (it is a variant of ailurophile, meaning lover of cats). Ofttimes the department is called upon to settle arguments-last year two college roommates quibbled about who makes more money, pro footballers or auto racers (the top stars are about even-in the six-figure range). Both lawyers-and prisoners-by the score request citations of cases referred to in TIME'S Law section...
...that the system of dual schools for whites and blacks be dismantled. In 1968-69, only 20% of the Negro children in the South attended integrated schools; this fall, the percentage will nearly double. Moreover, the Government also inherited from the Johnson Administration plans to press -and press hard-upon those Southern education districts that had not yet begun realistic desegregation. School separatism seemed finally doomed, to the despair of diehard segregationists and the joy of civil rights advocates...
Kennedy talks somberly about "that night" and about its darkness. If there were indeed any lights along the way back to the cottage, he says, he never saw them. He understands the damage that he has inflicted upon his family and himself. He also ponders these days whether his future usefulness may not have to lie somewhere outside of public life...
...events: battles won, treaties signed, rulers elected or deposed, and now, seemingly, planets conquered. Equally important are the great groundswells of popular movements that affect the minds and values of a generation or more, not all of which can be neatly tied to a time and place. Looking back upon the America of the '60s, future historians may well search for the meaning of one such movement. It drew the public's notice on the days and nights of Aug. 15 through 17, 1969, on the 600-acre farm of Max Yasgur in Bethel...
Moral of Compassion. The tie that binds also chafes. Since Harry does the cooking and the mending, he sometimes sulks like a put-upon housewife. Charlie is the male partner, as it were, and with a certain oafish, masculine crudity he does things like cut his toenails in bed. But his basic role is to nag at Harry and call him (her) a "twit." Be it ever so hurtful, there is no place like home, and in its pathetic way the Charlie-Harry relationship is a bad marriage that works. The law threatens to sever it. Charlie has been apprehended...