Word: dispatchable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...correspondents know their way around as well as Richard Beebe Dudman. Resourceful without being reckless, in 20 years on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he has learned to operate with equal ease in Cuba or Washington, the Middle East or London, Viet Nam or Paris. But no newsman can be at ease on assignment in Cambodia...
Revolution has gone to college to get its decree, and the phenomenon has not escaped the makers of Getting Straight. With cynical dispatch, they have trained a high-powered telescope on that bit of scorched earth known as the radicalized campus. But in their haste to capitalize on the avalanche of recent headlines, the planners made one miscalculation: they are peering down the wrong end. The people are turned into midgets, major issues are trivialized, and what might have been incisive farce is turned into insult comedy...
SAIGON Bureau Chief Marsh Clark was in Hong Kong last week for a week of much-needed rest and relaxation. Then President Nixon sent U.S. and South Vietnamese forces into Cambodia. But Clark and his men reacted with military dispatch. Swiftly, TIME'S team of correspondents was deploying to meet the magazine's needs...
...protesters. Early in the week the issues included almost any notion that radicals could use to challenge administrations or to try to provoke a confrontation. There were demonstrations seeking more black students, protests against ROTC, fights for greater student influence over university policy. But after the President announced the dispatch of U.S. troops into Cambodia, the overriding issue became the war. Many university presidents joined the protesters, in sentiment if not in physical action. Even the relatively moderate National Student Association issued a call for the impeachment of Richard Nixon...
Seeking Coexistence. Though Soviet aircraft have avoided the direct combat area over Suez, the Israelis branded the Russian role as "alarming." Said Jerusalem: "The Soviet decision to dispatch what are to all intents and purposes regular units of the Soviet air force against Israel is without precedent and parallel." Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser could hardly be expected to see it that way. At a May Day rally near Cairo, he ridiculed the Israeli charges of Soviet involvement as "a great comedy." Declared Nasser: "The Soviet Union is not helping us launch aggression. It is helping us liberate our occupied...