Search Details

Word: call (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...present 33. Those 33 or younger would go into active military units; those 34 to 39 would be assigned to Regional and Popular (local) Forces or join those 40 to 45 in civilian defense units. Duong Van Thuy, chairman of the House Defense Committee, would also like to call up all single girls aged 18 to 25 to serve as hospital aides or armed forces secretaries, where they could, as Thuy put it, use their "soft hands and tender hearts to comfort our boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: On a New Footing | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...meet the threat, Special U.S. Envoy Cyrus Vance visited Seoul last February and promised to give Park $100 million in additional U.S. military aid this year on top of the normal $160 million. Drawing on this new account, Park is organizing a 2,500,000-man reserve that, on call, will help to patrol the coast, operate ground-surveillance radar stations and perform other such duties. He is also trying to modernize the country's 600,000-man armed forces, replacing World War II rifles with the new M16, buying U.S. helicopters for better troop mobility and adding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Wave of Provocation | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...Viet Nam. He owns 15 magazines and newspapers, including the popular Bild-Zeitung (literally, picture paper), that account for 31% of West Germany's circulation of weekday publications, 88% on Sundays. Reflecting the disdain that most West Germans feel toward the unkempt young radicals, Springer's papers call them "political beatniks," "crazy half-toughs," and "the matriculated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Bitter Aftertaste | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

Show the ground he certainly does. Harold Smith is bedding down with Janet Appleby, and Marcia Smith with Frank Appleby; their set calls them the Applesmiths. Eddie Constantine and Irene Saltz make it together, and so do Ben Saltz and Carol Constantine; they are the Saltines. As for Piet Hanema, call him insatiable; he expands the permutations by sleeping with Georgene Thorne, Bea Guerin, Carol Constantine and especially Foxy Whitman. The sexual scenes, and the language that accompanies them, are remarkably explicit, even for this new age of total freedom of expression. Some critics have dismissed Couples as an upper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Authors: View from the Catacombs | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...noting that the Updikes are the ringleaders of a group of like-minded couples whom the older Ipswichers call the Junior Jet Set. Updike has organized endless basketball, volleyball and touch-football games, led the jet set on skiing trips, and presided over countless intramural parties. Says one member of the set: "What we have evolved is a ritual. It sets up a rhythm where we are all available to each other. It's rather as if all of us belong to a family." Adds another friend without elaboration: "You can't sustain that very long without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Authors: View from the Catacombs | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

Previous | 229 | 230 | 231 | 232 | 233 | 234 | 235 | 236 | 237 | 238 | 239 | 240 | 241 | 242 | 243 | 244 | 245 | 246 | 247 | 248 | 249 | Next