Word: coverers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effective weapon that is used many times, to solve a particular situation. It is used often when Vietcong have U.S. troops pinned down (usually in ambush). We have no way of knocking out these bunkers without sustaining or risking sustaining heavy losses. Artillery cannot penetrate the earthen cover to the necessary depth and neither many times can bombs. Napalm can put "Charlie" out of action not by burning but by suffocation as the Napalm burning on the surface uses up available Oxygen in the tunnels...
...machine is minuscule: 21½ in. long by 27 in. wide, and only 370 Ibs. But listen to it hum. Bolted into a fragile frame of piping and Plexiglas, it generates 330 h.p., sounds like a Dixieland band, and last week propelled Scotland's Jimmy Clark, 31 (TIME cover, July 9, 1965), to a record average speed of 107 m.p.h. in the South African Grand Prix, his 25th Grand Prix victory-breaking the alltime career record set by Argentina's now-retired Juan Manuel Fangio...
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Standards from Yale. Even some public educators are worried that state schools may be getting so powerful that they will squeeze out the many struggling private colleges or deplete the strength of the better ones-all of which face an economic crisis (TIME cover, June 23). Educators agree that the two sectors need each other. The University of California may have set high standards for all state schools, notes Clark Kerr, "but we got those standards from private institutions like Harvard and Yale...
...ordinary, honorable components get obstinately blurred, resolutely thrown out of focus by an author who mistakes his vices for his virtues. Almost as if to cover up the honest banality of his basic theme, Orlovitz, 49, has laid on the obscurantism of a great prose experiment. He has succeeded only in substituting conventions of technique for conventions of content...