Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...environment of change is, of course, very much the weekly concern of TIME. In the current issue, for example, almost every section reports and interprets change, some of it familiar, much of it little known. The cover story in WORLD introduces the new woman Prime Minister of a vast and struggling country where many women still cling to the old tradition of purdah. SCIENCE carries a report and the first color photographs of the remarkable new underground headquarters for NORAD (North American Air Defense Command), which has been in construction for five years inside Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain...
...Time. As far as the pay-raise issue goes, McNamara was acting in his familiar role of lightning rod for the White House. He was trying to control costs-as do all department heads. Besides the specific effort to hold down the fiscal-1967 budget, the Johnson Administration is committed to keep all wage increases within reasonable bounds...
...invites corruption. He is dumb, passive and available, and he lacks all strength of purity. The healthy organism rejects disease; the pure spirit resists evil. As for the spectacle of the supine young Adonis having his flesh and heart beaked out by grotesque female vultures, the ritual is overly familiar and more than a bit of a drag. Lolling in this effete bordello of his imagination, Albee achieved his first quick flop (seven performances) and his tiniest play...
There was the familiar forest of sails fluttering from aluminum masts, the spinnakers billowing out with the help of nearby fans, and the dinghies bobbing in pools of water as gangs of urchins swarmed over the luxury yachts to ogle the bulkhead-to-bulkhead carpeting and built-in barbecue grills. But potential buyers at Manhattan's 56th National Boat Show were most interested in the small boats, the fastest-selling items in a sport that has 8,000,000 devotees and annual sales of $2.6 billion...
...sort of hollow victory, because neither Jack Nicklaus nor Gary Player was entered in the tournament. But it did wonders for Arnie's pride, and it was worth $11,000 -which automatically (since it was the year's first tournament) put Palmer back into his once-familiar position atop pro golfs money-winning list...