Word: passing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Getting magazines to the troops is, to be sure, low on the list of military priorities. But last year, newspapers reported that part of TIME'S Viet Cong cover issue (July 28) was found cached in a V.C. cave. Apparently, TIME does get through, with an unusual "pass-along" readership...
...HOUSING. The President only last month asked Congress in his urban message for 6,000,000 units for low-and moderate-income families within ten years, a program that Congress is not likely to pass without major surgery. But the commission nonetheless recommended that the building time be speeded up. Six million units should be built in five years, 600,000 of them in the next year...
...immediately jumped into a lifeboat and began rowing toward the cutter. Suddenly, a dozen men burst onto the deck of the 26 de Julio. With the ship's anchor still dragging, they got up power and headed the ship toward the lifeboat. They missed on the first pass, but swung around again and came close enough to dump two of the lifeboat's occupants into...
...cutter's skipper, Chief Boatswain's Mate P. W. Caviness, radioed Coast Guard headquarters for permission to intervene, was soon told to prevent the Cuban vessel from overrunning the lifeboat. The orders were too late. Before the cutter could move into position, the Julio made its third pass, and Caviness heard a shot fired from its deck. By the time the lifeboat came into sight again, both it and the sea around it were empty...
...commented after the meeting that the support of the large language departments was probably decisive in winning Faculty approval of the reduction, which will go into effect next fall and apply retroactively to students who would have needed a second year of language study under the old rule to pass the requirement...