Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help them broaden and enliven their classes. One of the most popular of these aids-the collection of covers that have appeared on TIME during the summer-will shortly be going out to teachers enrolling for the 1965-66 school year. Other aids scheduled to follow will include background studies on the United Nations on its 20th anniversary, space, Viet Nam, civil rights and world religions. As events dictate, we shall also be sending extras during the school year, such as maps, charts and special reports...
...exile community lives on hope-and stories from home. For six months the rumors have swirled around the mysterious disappearance of Che Guevara, 37, long the most important figure next to Castro in Cuba's Communist hierarchy (TIME, June 25). Last week the Che story receded into the background before a whole new crop of tales whispering of sabotage and assassination attempts inside Cuba. Some were open to question; others were at least partly based on fact. Either way, they all hinted at growing unrest on Castro's troubled island...
...first the TV screen turned all grey. Then the image took shape, teasingly, as if appearing from behind a slow-parting curtain that moved from left to right. While faint beep-beep-beeps were heard in the background, the picture grew in a series of vertical lines...
Fowler is an adept negotiator who prepares for every task with compulsive thoroughness. He can be simultaneously friendly and cautious, has a disarming sense of humor. He also possesses a broad, basic background in all areas of the U.S. economy, and a political instinct that has been finely honed during a Washington career of some 32 years, roughly half in Government and half in law practice. He has countless friends in Congress and the business establishment, and he has the ear of Lyndon Johnson, who can hardly find enough adjectives to express his admiration: "He's prudent, careful, able, loyal...
...made the church in Old Lyme, Conn., his version of Monet's Rouen cathedral, painting it through all the o'clocks of light. Another favorite subject was the banners that billowed above city streets; he shuttled their bright colors back and forth through his works, loosening background images to mingle with the flat patterns of flags...