Word: covering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...TIME's editors were preparing this week's cover story on the U.S. public university, our Education Department was putting the final question marks on its 32nd annual Current Affairs Test. Now in the mails to teachers, the test, based on the year's events as related in TIME, will eventually be taken by more than 2,500,000 students...
...makes out worse than his counterparts of earlier wars. Whereas the World War II vet who wanted to further his education got full tuition, fees and book costs plus $75-a-month living allowance, the returnee from Viet Nam can expect a maximum of only $130 a month to cover everything. Currently, there are 450,000 returnees receiving G.I. schooling benefits. They enjoy slightly brighter job prospects than did their predecessors, largely because the U.S. economy is stronger than ever before. Last year the U.S. Employment Service found jobs for 1,200,000 veterans-many fresh home from Viet...
...Crater with a View. The V.C. first opened up with mortars on the U.S. base, then sent snipers scurrying under cover of the moonless night into the camp's very midst to sow confusion. Then, from north and south, the Communists charged in force. The big U.S. 155-mm. guns were lowered to fire pointblank, and cooks and headquarters clerks joined the gun crews in manning the defense. U.S. planes, directed by Sergeant Mark Ridley of San Antonio, soon swept in to blast the attackers. When the attack began, Ridley and his squad found themselves out on patrol...
...most obvious place is Viet Nam, and in constantly calling on the U.S. to withdraw its forces from Viet Nam, De Gaulle, like some of the protesters elsewhere in the world and even the U.S., has more than merely the ideal of peace in mind. "Under the cover of anti-Viet Nam activity," says Kaplan, "it is not world peace that is being organized and restored; it is a campaign to bring about a dramatic defeat for one of the world super powers...
...before Redding--did (though Cooke was coerced by the orientation of the company he recorded for). Redding was infinitely far from the frame of mind which characterizes the Motown corporation with its grossly defective cultural antennae. Motown will naively release its first album with a psychedelic cover five years from...