Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some Westerners seem inclined to believe that communism with its platform of land reform and intensive mobilization of manpower for industrialization is the most effective approach to economic growth for underdeveloped countries. But I must call their attention to the fact that most of the Asian people are aspiring to political freedom as well as seeking economic development. They are striving to modernize their traditional societies on their own terms. They have become wary of the costly and unhappy results that some Asian countries have had to suffer from the rigorous but ineffective execution of economic programs under the strict...
...eyed Greeks" and "far-darting Apollo" prefigured his later introduction of such double adjectives into the young TIME. The two boys did not become close friends until they reached Yale, where Hadden became chairman of the Yale Daily News in his sophomore year, an unusual honor prompted by the call of war for his seniors. Luce joined the News' board. But the war intervened, and both were shipped off to Camp Jackson, S.C. as student officer instructors to the draftees then flooding into the ranks...
...stands on Viet Nam (too hard), Rhodesia (too soft), the wage freeze (too tough on the working class), defense (too expensive), and possible entry into the Common Market (too great a surrender of sovereignty). If the rebels do not swing back in line, warned Wilson, he might just call new elections and bar them from running...
...stalled motorists with a little humor. "There must be a lot of ladies out tonight," Warren Boggess of San Francisco's KSFO likes to say. "I see cars swerving in and out of traffic lanes." Reporting for New York's WCBS, Bob Richardson and Neal Busch call themselves "Orville" and "Wilbur," their helicopters "help-o-copters." Last month Los Angeles' KABC hired a pair of chatty girls, blonde Kelly Lange and brunette Lorri Ross, to be traffic spotters. Outfitted in snug, silver pants, the girls quickly mastered the special vocabulary used to describe the chaos beneath them...
...involved was dispensed mainly in dribs and drabs: $9.18 to pay for a recruited athlete's motel room, $2.11 for another to make an emergency phone call. Some of the money was budgeted for Illinois scouts' traveling expenses. One football player received a total of $300 to cover his wife's medical expenses. Most got nothing at all, and the rest averaged less than $15 per month, which is a permissible amount under N.C.A.A. rules but not under the Big Ten's. Ironically, meticulous records were kept of all disbursements, so that Elliott, Combes and Braun...