Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should have been a shoo-in. His first two-year term as mayor of Miami Beach had been honest and productive. He had become a popular, familiar figure about town. More important, in a city where more than 40% are old enough (the median age: 59) for the welfare benefits initiated by his father, Elliott Roosevelt had a magic name...
...anyone not familiar with the vaguely apathetic consensus which keeps the Harvard system running smoothly, the HPC must seem a strange breed of student government. Masters handpick 14 students, and the dean takes the students' case to the Faculty. Former chairman Trosper, commenting on the educational liberalism of some professors says, "students have to run pretty hard to keep up with some of the Faculty members...
...Israeli side, things also seemed fairly familiar to Marlin Levin, our Jerusalem stringer, who has been through every previous Arab-Jewish crisis. A U.S. newspaperman from Harrisburg, Pa., he went to the Holy Land on his honeymoon in 1947, stayed on to cover the war of independence, and has been there ever since. When the current clash developed, he was joined by Rome Bureau Chief Israel Shenker and Madrid Bureau Chief Peter Forbath...
...visitor at Fort Benning, Ga., stirred as much excitement as if he were the Army Chief of Staff, or at least Cassius Clay getting into khakis. But the commanding and familiar figure that strode past the barracks was dressed in civvies. The only martial markings were a brass wire on his right wrist, symbolizing his initiation into a Montagnard unit in Viet Nam and, on his other wrist, a watch crystal worn inward, combat style, to which was attached a gold tag with name and address, presumably to notify next of kin if anything happened to the bearer...
...Marcus it was a familiar experience. Like the other amateur sleuths enveloped in the Kennedy assassination (a small band whose numbers are impossible to determine), he has grown accustomed to a disinterested, onesided press. And more than most of them, Marcus has persisted in his efforts to get coverage -- for a bizzare compilation of photographic evidence (see pictures and description pp. 9 and 11) suggesting a great deal but, even by his own admission, proving nothing...