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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVERY story in TIME is written and edited in New York by staff members whose experience and knowledge is intensely applied to weighing facts obtained from a wide variety of sources. To write this week's cover story, Associate Editor Robert F. Jones had, along with many facets of research from other places, the reporting of an unusual team of correspondents in India...
TIME'S interviews disclosed a wide range of Senate unhappiness. But mostly, despite their uneasiness, the Senators seemed willing to substitute anxiety and assent for advice and consent. Senatorial quotes...
After breakfast, he strolls out to the wide, flower-fringed lawn for his regular hour of darshan (audience) with the favor seekers and admirers that surround any politician. A chauffeur and a single white-clad bodyguard accompany him in a black, Indian-built Hindustan Ambassador sedan to his office in the circular, sandstone Parliament House. Office routine-sometimes 17 hours a day of it-is interrupted only by a vegetarian lunch of curry, potato cutlet and tea (prepared by his wife) and a half-hour nap. A heart attack in 1959 and another seizure last year, shortly after he assumed...
...five armed forces and all organizations assigned to them, such as the Public Health Service. It used to govern servicemen's wives and civilian employees outside the U.S., but the Supreme Court (acting on writs of habeas corpus) voided that power in 1957. The code proscribes a wide variety of offenses, ranging from military mutiny to burglary. It authorizes execution (usually hanging) for everything from premeditated murder to wartime desertion, but makes death mandatory only for spying. No military executions have occurred since 1961; the Navy has performed none since...
...overall 1964 syphilis incidence rate for the U.S. was 12 cases per 100,000, but there were wide local variations. The District of Columbia was the nation's VD capital with a rate of 87. Other high rates: Florida, 36; South Carolina, 35; Georgia, 27; North Carolina, 23. C.D.C. noted that increases reported from a particular area may result partly from better detection and reporting of cases. Mississippi reported a rate of only 16 per 100,000 and Virginia 7; New York reported 21, and Illinois only 11. One state reported none: North Dakota...