Word: apts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...selecting the kudos we report, we are apt to play the big, inevitable items against the surprising, the unpredictable, the offbeat. This, of course, also applies to our selection of other kinds of news. We like to think that we bring special qualities to the week's big "musts," but we also know that TIME does not live only by the inevitable stories. We are particularly concerned with the people and events that do not force themselves to the top of the news but must be sought out by the enterprising journalist-just as many an honorary doctor must...
...Monster & Friends. The Kennedy Playground is only the latest variant in a slow latter-day transformation of the old slide and swing. The slides are now apt to be shaped like oversized caterpillars, and space stations, poly-blocks and geodesic domes are standard equipment in better playgrounds across the U.S. "Creative play" is one of the country's newest fancies...
...Sabri, who, while pretending to work for the Israelis, had for four years fed them phony information. Espionage sophisticates wondered why, if Sabri had really been such a successful double agent, the Egyptians had not managed to catch Hüttenmeister without exposing him. But then intelligence is apt to get fairly intricate, in the Middle East even more than elsewhere. So far this year, Syria has sentenced to death a Lebanese Protestant missionary for broadcasting information to Israel from transmitters hidden inside statues, and Lebanon meted out 20 years to a Jewish woman named Sholla Cohen for recruiting agents...
...lover's arm. There could not be a more dramatic, or terrible, moment for her to make this discovery. Moreover, the eroticism is tempered by the physical appearance of Actress Federspiel; she has appealing, lambent eyes, and she has a plain face and physical proportions that are not apt to excite. She arouses sympathy, not sensuality. If any cinema sex is meaningful, this is surely...
...wants "to get involved" with these unknown and unloved neighbors-it may cost time to testify in court, maybe bring on a lawsuit for interference or for some nameless of fense. The Decent Citizen and Taxpayer is apt to feel that taking any kind of action is unwise, unsafe-and unnecessary...