Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rule. Not far from Nikita's side was a shadowy figure named Liu Shao-chi-the sort of human blur most people overlook. But nobody should overlook Liu. who is the man in charge of the organization charged with holding Red China together. See FOREIGN NEWS'S COVER...
...TIME COVER SUBJECT MAKES GOOD. Thirty-five years ago, the handsome, cowlicked Yale crew "captain, James Stillman Rockefeller, smiled out from a TIME cover, his expression confident that the Olympic crew that he led would go forth, "the bronze-skinned ones, to conquer the oarsmen of the world, as warlike Menelaus led the bronze-greaved Argives against Troy of old." The late Arthur Brisbane, his fancy tickled by the responsibilities of "this stalwart scion of honorable American lines," imagined him stirring his men to victory with "winged words plucked bright and burning" from the Homeric Greek...
...ship's big tanks and replace it with enough compressed air to float the Queen. A diver went down, looked at the gaping holes in the starboard side; they ranged down as far as 46 ft. Lloyd Deir decided the team would need a prefabricated patch to cover the holes. It would have to be of three-eighths-inch steel, 20 ft. by 30 ft., weighing eleven tons. Deir and the others crouched on the deck, drew diagrams in chalk. "We all pitched in," says Cook Henley Doughtie, "but you can't really help Lloyd Deir...
Peking (see cover), Khrushchev sounded a very different note. Said he: "If we are strong, it does not mean that we should resort to force to test the stability of the capitalist system. That would be wrong. The people would not understand and would never support those who took it into their heads to act in this...
...would be a shame to allow lack of cohesion to destroy the local administrative machinery of Blue Cross, Blue Shield, and their counterparts, if a national superstructure could be set up to deal with the problems of nation-wide coverage. Such supplementary programs as Connecticut's C.M.S. program to cover non-hospital medical expenses for families earning less than $7000 could be expanded similarly. One can only regret that voluntary insurance plans have taken so long to find out that Americans will take any steps necessary to avoid paying the doctor...