Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decades since, history has worked its vast and familiar changes -and the toothy smiles seem a lot friendlier now. Japan is a firm U.S. ally. For this week's issue, as a matter of fact, we had considered a cover story on Japan's Premier Sato. But the editors decided that the news about the formation of Germany's new government was more urgent. Thus, this week's cover on Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger-who represents another example of how former foes can change...
Five months after Medicare went into effect, the program is causing chaos in many U.S. hospitals. Because Medicare funds are not flowing fast enough, the hospitals face a choice of going into debt or raising their fees. The trouble, conceded Hubert Humphrey last week, is all too familiar: a serious bureaucratic bottleneck in Washington...
Earlier in the week, Johnson showed familiar signs of restlessness. Though doctors had advised him not to drive for three weeks, he led the press corps on an hour-long auto chase around tiny Fredericksburg, Texas, after church services. Later, he grew lonesome at the ranch, began commuting 65 miles daily by JetStar to Austin. There he worked for the first time in memory in the ten-room office suite built for him two years ago atop Austin's new federal building-a layout which the G.O.P. branded his Texas Taj Mahal. For all his exertions...
Married. Merriman Smith, 53, United Press International's dean of the White House press corps whose honor it is to end news conferences with the familiar "Thank you, Mr. President"; and Gailey Johnson, 33, a California decorator; both for the second time; in Alexandria...
...assigned to trace a shipment of radio activated opium from the poppy field of Persia to the junk shops of Harlem whip out their trusty Geiger counter and go lickety-click from Teheran to Geneva to Naples to Nice. En route they run a grim gauntlet of all-too-familiar thriller scenes (bang-bang on the Blue Train, hugger-mugger on the bad guy's yacht, hack-the-stripper in a nudie nightspot) and unpleasantly overripe chestnuts ("How'll we get there-take the midnight camel?"). By the time the heroes get the heroin the customers may find...