Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never have I read an article that captured "home" so well for me as did your Aug. 10 cover story on Hawaii. Yes, my school diplomas are signed by Oren E. Long; yes, I remember Dan Inouye on the campus and in the classrooms...
Labor. One of the most significant NATIONAL AFFAIRS stories of recent years has been the revelation of corruption in the Teamsters Union. More than two years ago, TIME looked into the Teamsters' aromatic stable in a cover story on Dave Beck, then boss of the union. On Labor Day, 1957, TIME summed up the congressional hearings on labor up to that point, and concluded: "There is a strong likelihood of more restrictive labor laws." After three years of congressional investigation of the Teamsters, TIME decided that it was time to restudy and recap the record, which Teamster Boss Jimmy...
Africa. "The American is not long in Africa." says TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast, "before he is taken aside and asked, 'Well, how long do you think this can last?' " After two years of reporting the ever-changing African story (including such major pieces as the cover story on Guinea's Sekou Toure), Prendergast finds that the question is in itself a kind of answer - a tacit admission by Africa's whites that they can resist and delay but cannot stop the move for increasing African rule. Africa has become a land of two timetables: the impatient...
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Hollywood would not look twice at India's Lata Mangeshkar. Tin-Pan Alley might cover its ears. But last week plain little Lata, her hair braided in a pigtail, drove to one of Bombay's biggest movie studios, was ushered up to a mike, and the sweet, childish voice that struggles to rise above the accompaniment was nursed through its 6,000th recording. For 16 years, barefoot Lata has been putting on sound tracks the songs that Indian actresses fake when they appear on the screen. Now, at 29, she is the undisputed and indispensable queen of India...