Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...color illustrations, including the Halston-clad model on the cover and the four pages accompanying the story, were researched by Mary Themo, a longtime observer of the fashion world, and photographed by TIME'S Eddie Adams, a veteran of many political and combat assignments, who found the chance to work in and around the fashion battlefields of Seventh Avenue a welcome change. The reporting for the story was begun weeks ago by New York Correspondent Eileen Shields. She confesses to having once been "a slave of fashion," but uncomfortable about her bondage at times-"especially," she says, "during...
...more tanks, armored vehicles and long-range artillery than ever, most of it from the U.S. Next year the Israeli air force will take delivery of the first of 25 F-15 Eagles, the newest, fastest (top speed: Mach 2.5) and most agile U.S. fighter. Israel's other combat planes (principally F-4 Phantoms and the Israeli-designed Kfirs) are being outfitted with the latest electronic gadgets to aid in night flying missions and foil antiaircraft missiles. The Shrike air-to-surface missile has been deployed to knock out the radars on which antiaircraft batteries depend. In addition, Israel...
...organize about fifty Radcliffe women from different classes and different houses into a social club for the purpose of getting to know one another a little better. We feel the Harvard environment tends to fracture rather than unite women, and would like to establish a meeting place that would combat that trend. We visualise (eventually) a comfortable clubhouse, with kitchen, art facilities, a squash court, library, TV and stereo-a place to meet friends and spend time agreeably...
...vocabulary to share their experienkes with others." While the article is not free from sloppy reporting, two witnesses have vouched for its overall accuracy. Kilbridge, for his part, has failed to request any retraction of the article he calls "so full of inaccuracies it's ridiculous." And to combat the charges he has instructed students and faculty to read a copy of a speech he delivered at a Seattle luncheon without noting that several of the more controversial statements reported in the Times account originated from a late afternoon question-and-answer session Kilbridge held before a different audience. Such...
...force on the Rhodesian side, since such a move might trigger an Angola-scale Cuban intervention. At the moment, the British are resigned to the Cubans participating in a training and logistical role. But they do not think Fidel Castro's forces will engage in heavy combat as they did in Angola, unless Smith receives large reinforcements of South Africans or white mercenaries...