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...definition, he (or she) is the person who, in the judgment of the editors, dominated the news of the past year and left an indelible mark -for good or ill-on history. A year ago we chose not an individual but a whole generation that was making a special impact on life all around the world: "Youth: Twenty-Five and Under...
...Delayed Impact. Stewart dashed down the beach, searching for some sign of Holt, then scrambled up on a rock for a better look. Seeing nothing, he ran to Holt's car and drove two miles to a nearby army barracks, where he telephoned for help. Helicopters, light planes, boats and launches soon spiderwebbed the area in the greatest search in Australia's history. Skindivers plunged deep below the surface. Flying in from Canberra, Zara Holt walked for hours along the beach, keeping her own lonely vigil and suggesting a few places where searchers might look for the body...
...should go about so casually and unguarded. Holt had neither wanted nor received any secret-service protection-an individualistic privilege that no other Prime Minister is likely to enjoy. Not until long hours after Holt's disappearance did the numbing awareness of truth finally set in. The full impact arrived only when television cameras mounted on windy cliff tops in Portsea brought the disaster into every living room and into the heart of s every Australian family...
...Skin. Video tape has only just begun its legal career (TIME, Dec. 22), and its Topeka appearance was apparently the second time that one has ever been viewed in court by a judge in the U.S. But the tape is not likely to be surpassed soon for dramatic impact. In preparation for the second trial, Kid-well's lawyer had sent him to the nearby Menninger Clinic in the hope that he would tell doctors there a clearer story about the murder night than he had yet told anyone else. Psychiatrist Joseph Satten, chief of Menninger...
...subcommittee studying the impact of Mather House on the College has suggested cutting down off-campus living and deconverting crowded suites in the present Houses as possible ways to fill the tenth House...