Word: covering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prague cut off telephone and Teletype communications, TIME'S files got through. Office drivers turned couriers raced to convenient border points to pick up copy from correspondents. In New York, those files were combined with voluminous re ports coming in from TIME'S Washington Bureau for the cover story and other articles written by Howard Muson and David Tinnin, and edited by Jason McManus...
Ursula Nadasdy, the other cover researcher, was born in Budapest. She was only 13 when the Russians invaded Hungary in 1956 and her family tried to escape. The first time, they were caught only 500 yards from the Austrian border and jailed for three days. As soon as they were freed, the Nadasdys tried again. They slithered across a heavily patrolled highway on their bellies and managed to join friends and relatives in Vienna in time for Christmas. "When the revolution began," Ursula remembers, "Hungarians stopped complaining about the hardships of daily life. There really was a taste of freedom...
...dealers either leased or controlled by the company, and they account for some 27% of sales. Another innovation, the offer of a five-year or 50,000-mile warranty to customers, turned out to be one of the cleverest gimmicks in auto history. Insurance premiums to cover costs of repairs are, of course, included in the price that the buyer pays...
...down payment of $50,000 or so, Oppenheimer will handle the financing and feeding of a 500-head herd until the cattle reach proper weight and grade. The herd must then go to market, whether volatile beef prices are on the rise (which means win) or too low to cover costs (which means lose...
...nature of the workings of the sun. Eventually, study of these X-ray outbursts may provide a better understanding of the cause of solar-magnetic disturbances and help scientists to forecast flares. Such early warnings could be vital to astronauts exploring the surface of the moon. Unless they take cover in their spacecraft before a hail of particles arrives from the sun, the explorers could receive a deadly dose of radiation...