Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kiesinger cover, TIME examines the mood of Germany and finds a democracy concerned with many of the problems that democracies everywhere face. Our recent coverage of Japan reflects similar concerns.There are no serious threats of major war, no dictators lurking in the background. It makes Pearl Harbor, and the four years that followed, seem fortunately distant...
...President of the Young Dems is a 29-year-old ex-marine, a third-year law student named Don Allen. Allen, born in Florida, has come under attack for his "radical" politics and for his out-of-state background. A warm, straightforward person, he makes no effort to conceal his views. Although he would be classified as a middle-of-the-roader in national politics, Don Allen is definitely on the political left at Ole Miss...
...police officers were paired and each pair assigned a different nutshell study. They had two or three days to go over the models and accompanying, background information. At the end of the week, sitting around a table in Building E-1 at the Med School, each pair had to describe how they would have gone about solving their crime and give a reasonable explanation of it. Parker A. Glass, of the Department of Legal Medicine and chairman of the session, sat at the head of the table, a large loose-leaf notebook with information on all the cases opened before...
...interdepartmental courses -- what the report calls the "core curriculum" -- would in effect form a sort of Gen Ed program for doctors. The core, the report says, would provide each student with "sufficient background and familiarity with each field to know when and how to return for further details when these may be helpful to him in his future work...
Figaro covers the news of Paris exhaustively if blandly; its foreign coverage is acknowledged to be the best of any French publication. In addition to eleven foreign bureaus, it keeps some half a dozen correspondents on the road in search of background stories, any one of which may fill a full page. Figaro was the only French daily to cover the Jack Ruby trial, the only one to send a reporter along on President Johnson's Southeast Asian trip...