Word: greates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alarming portion of my generation and a significant number of an older generation who ought to know better, converged on Washington to finally repudiate those words because, alas, in a remote corner of the globe, the price had indeed become too high, the burden too heavy, the hardship too great and the foe too strong...
...Aedes aegypti has indeed changed the course of history more effectively than any other animal, as your excellent "Hanoi Fever" story implied [Oct. 10]. Alexander the Great is only one of the mildly illustrious millions it has felled. But your illustration showed a male mosquito, and it is the female who is more deadly, being the "biter." I recently photographed a nonfatal femme Culex just emerged from its pupa, proboscis and all. After...
...Thanks for accurately portraying one of the atrocities taking place in our country every day ["Atlanta: The Great Hippie Hunt," Oct. 10]. It seems that one of the great foundations of the U.S., the concept of individual freedom, has fallen by the wayside...
...good luck has overwhelmingly outweighed the bad. Golfer Jack Nicklaus and Prizefighter Cassius Clay, for example, were relative unknowns when they were on TIME'S cover; within a year they were at the pinnacle of their sports. Decathlon Ace Bob Mathias, Tennis Star Althea Gibson and Hockey Great Bobby Hull, to name just a few, will testify that no gremlins visited them after TIME covers. As for baseball, Detroit's Denny McLain responded to his cover story last year by going on to win an incredible 31 games-and then helped his Tiger teammates to a World Series...
...that solution?although it evidently gained new respectability and popularity (see story on page 20). What M-day did raise was an unmistakable sign to Richard Nixon that he must do more to end the war and do it faster. Unless the pace of progress quickens, he will have great difficulty maintaining domestic support for the two or three years that he believes he needs to work the U.S. out of Viet Nam with honor and in a way that would safeguard U.S. interests and influence in the world...