Word: covering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opening my mailbox and catching a glimpse of Robert Vickrey's cover portrait of John Updike tumble out [April 26], I was instantly impressed with a feeling of Andrew Wyeth's nostalgic quality. Being a Wyeth fan, I immediately dove into your cover article and was quite pleased with myself and with Robert Vickrey on reading of John Earth's comparison of the artist Wyeth to the author Updike. I am now hurriedly on my way to our library to uncover every novel by Updike I can find...
...Negro alderman who has labored for six years for council action to break down segregated housing. Last week, with the aid of seven men newly elected to the 19-member council, Mrs. Phillips pushed through a law even stiffer than the new federal statute. While the federal law will cover some 80% of the nation's housing by 1970, the Milwaukee measure, effective immediately, grants far fewer exceptions. The question now is whether the city, in the face of inevitable white backlash, can effectively enforce the ordinance...
...student had to be personally recommended by his own local or national P.G.A.; he had to cough up $250 for tuition and $125 for a year's P.G.A. dues, and he had to show a bank balance (or a sponsor's pledge) of $7,500-enough to cover his expenses for six months on the pro tour...
...widely known by now that this is Mailer's attempt to build a Washington monument by providing a step-by-step account of what in the present perspective seems like a decidedly minor news event: the peace march and militant demonstration in Washington last October. Mailer does indeed cover all the accepted journalistic steps, from the ceremonial handing-in of draft cards at the Department of Justice to the activists' vain roughhouse attempts to storm the Pentagon...
...Hamilton. We say no, we're not leaving until the gym, IDA, and amnesty demands are met. Rudd goes out and comes back and asks us to leave again, and we say no again. He leaves to get reinforcements. Ranum leaves. Someone comes in to take pictures. We all cover our faces with different photographs of Grayson Kirk...