Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long with politics at Sea Girt, N.J., and the night was long with parties. In the morning, Presidential Candidate Hubert Humphrey was up early, relaxing by wading in the surf. When he spotted a clutch of reporters straggling in his wake, he called out: "Come on, fellows, let's do a little jogging." Only TIME'S Hays Gorey took off his shoes and accepted the challenge. "Let's make it a race," Humphrey said. So Gorey took off in a 20-yd. sprint. He edged out Humphrey...
...wake of the "Battle of Chicago," the press is being subjected to a great deal of criticism about its coverage. As is customary and proper in such a situation, editors and newsmen are also subjecting themselves to much self-scrutiny and self-criticism (see THE PRESS). The discussions generally center on the question of objectivity. Was the press "objective" in its reporting? Or was it slanted, trying to document its own sense of outrage. The moment offers us a welcome opportunity to restate TIME'S own views about objectivity...
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield quickly reminded his colleagues of his own sweeping proposal made last June in the wake of Robert Kennedy's assassination. The Mansfield package also called for a national preferential primary, but suggested other changes as well: abolition of the electoral college, extension of the vote to 18-year-olds, and limitation of the presidency to a single six-year term...
...police were not unhappy. Daley had prepared them last April, in the wake of the riots following Martin Luther King's assassination, when he ordered the cops to "shoot to kill" arsonists and to "shoot to maim or cripple" looters. Chicago police theoretically receive regular in-service riot training, but in fact the training consists largely of reading general departmental orders rather than intensive drilling...
...demand that Czechoslovakia fall into his sphere of influence after the war. As a result, when General George Patton's tanks prepared to liberate Prague in the war's closing days, orders came from Allied headquarters to halt. The Russians got the honor of freeing the capital. In their wake came cadres of Czechoslovak Communists who had spent the war in Moscow. Aided by the presence of the Soviet army, the Communists infiltrated the government bureaucracy and went to work propagandizing the Czechoslovak people. In the 1946 elections, the Communists emerged as the country's largest single party. Benes formed...