Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proud ruler who lived to see his country free once again, became the first African leader to be TIME'S Man of the Year. Since then, Africa has been making history on its own, awakening the rest of the world to Africa's own awakening. TIME cover stories illustrate the way the story has developed. In 1952 there was Daniel Malan, the dour Boer Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, who died last week, out to keep what he regarded as the inferior black majority of his countrymen in permanent subjection. After him came the face...
...headlines about Cuba began to recede from the front pages last week, they left many a second-day thought in U.S. city rooms and editorial offices. How well did the U.S. press cover the revolution in Cuba? While there were some examples of fine reporting as well as cases of sheer irresponsibility, the answer that most newsmen reluctantly reached about the overall performance was: Not very good...
Importer for the gadgets is Cambridge Businessman Paul Grindle, whose Ealing Corp. sells foreign educational equipment to the U.S. market. Grindle saw some of the machines on the cover of a Russian physics magazine, went to Moscow and began negotiations. The gadgets are good, says Grindle, because they are designed by clever engineers specifically for teaching, cheap because they are already in mass production for Russian schools...
...especially strong in math, John Thomas also runs the hurdles for fun, throws the javelin 150 ft., has put the shot 45 ft. with no special practice. What bothers him most is pre-jump nervousness. "The moment I fear is just standing there waiting to go." He used to cover his ears as the loudspeaker announced the jump he was about to attempt. When he broke his own record in the Knights of Columbus meet in Boston (where he first ran the hurdles -"It loosens me up"), Thomas did it during the climax of the big mile race. With...
...Ernie Kovacs as a humanity-minded hospital patient who becomes so fascinated with medical mystique that he buys a secondhand stethoscope for $3 and sends Hippocrates diving for cover...