Word: covering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...document, however, was the first presidential message ever to deal specifically with the subject. The President requested $500 million in federal programs, a boost of 10% over present outlays, to help "provide a standard of living for Indians equal to that of the country as a whole." Items would cover 10,000 Indian children under Head Start, set up a "model community school system," pay for 2,500 new houses a year, allocate $112 million in health projects, provide 600 more health aides in Indian communi ties, spend $22.7 million on community-action schemes and $25 million on concentrated employment...
...noticeable changes in atmospheric pressure and the direction of jet streams near the north and south poles, which are not protected by the magnetic field. Such changes on a worldwide basis, the scientists say, might cause lush valleys to become barren wastes, deserts to bloom, icecaps to grow and cover the land, or to melt and raise sea levels enough to flood coastal cities...
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Looking Westward. The sets swing too-literally. They reflect the trend of multimedia dance, which means that moving scenery, lights, props, sound effects and film clips have all become an integral part of the choreography, as in Jeffrey's Astarte (see cover picture). Accompaniment ranges from full symphony orchestras and electronic yawping to jazz and, as in the case of Jerome Robbins' Moves, dead silence. Costuming can consist of tossing on anything that suits the moment or, as in Parades and Changes, performed by Ann Halprin's Dancers' Workshop of San Francisco, taking...
...less an amateur than the tennis star who collects under-the-table payments from promoters? Or the basketball ace who gets discounts from the" stores and restaurants in his college town? And how about the "amateur" Communist athletes who make little pretense of working at their cover occupations...