Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many Deep South strongholds of segregation, local registrars last week were still using the old, familiar tactics of skulduggery and intimidation. Nonetheless, three weeks after the Voting Rights Act took effect, many thousands of Negroes had qualified as voters for the first time. "Almost everybody is getting registered who applies," said John Doar, chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division...
Cate, 33, born in Paris of American parents, was Yale '55, served two years in the Army, came to TIME in 1960 after three years with the St. Petersburg, Fla., Times. He is a familiar figure around the space center in Houston, did most of his interviewing for this week's stories at the flight director's console in the Mission Operations Control Room (where Artist Henry Koerner painted the cover portrait). Wilford, 31, is a native of Kentucky, was University of Tennessee (B.S., '55) and Syracuse University (M.A.), joined TIME in 1962 after a stint...
...were: 1) that Mayor Sam Yorty had ignored the legitimate needs of the city's Negroes, and 2) that the outburst was in large measure a protest against Police Chief William Parker's cops. It was too impassioned a time for final judgments, but Angelenos and others familiar with the Negro's private and public grievances against the city administration began last week to weigh the evidence on both sides...
...research that went into his centennial trilogy: all the battlefields revisited, 3,500 different sources consulted, 9,000,000 words of fresh notes. Like its two predecessors, The Coming Fury (1961) and Terrible Swift Sword (1963), Never Call Retreat can be read pleasurably and usefully even by someone familiar with all of Catton's other works...
...lion of the sky. It was known to the Greeks as the emissary of Zeus, and blamed in their legends for the death of Aeschylus -an eagle, the story goes, mistook the bald head of the dramatist for a stone and dropped a turtle on it. It is most familiar to Americans as the heraldic symbol on the U.S. Seal of State. But the real-life eagle beggars all symbolic descriptions, and of all the species that survive, the most impressive is the golden eagle...