Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meet until Paris, where Koerner painted his subject in seven hours of sittings over a period of three days. "A beautiful head, a very interesting head," was Koerner's dominant impression. Bing's concern was with the eyes. "I have sad eyes," he told Koerner, "but don't make them look afraid. I'm not afraid of anything...
...million to assuage the misery of more than 1,000,000 war refugees. At least 280,-000 were either sent back to their homes last year or resettled in new locations, but new refugees pour in daily, and the number living in temporary hovels rose during the same period from 320,000 to more than half a million. Private citizens in the U.S. have sent nearly $20 million in clothing, medicines and cash for refugee relief, and 29 U.S. voluntary agencies staffed by 400 Americans work in the camps...
Despite their understandable desire to see U.S. troops leave once they have done their job, Asians may need some time to get accustomed to an American presence and protection based on mobility from afar-and hence largely invisible. Some Pentagon planners foresee a transition period in Asia that will be marked by a sort of Yo-Yo strategy. In times of tension, there could be U.S. maneuvers and training exercises that would dispatch men and planes to friendly Southeast Asian fields, pull the patrolling Seventh Fleet into allied ports. Then, as the tension subsided, the G.I.s would be pulled back...
...problem was that 300 new teachers "took our jobs, then found others they preferred and didn't notify us," says Acting Superintendent Thaddeus Lubera. Cleveland hired 650 new teachers, still faced a shortage of 235. It began hiring any college graduates, even if they could teach only one period a day, yet wound up with 50 jobs filled by substitutes and retired teachers who, by law, must quit within 60 days or lose their pensions. Kansas City's director of school personnel, Robert Ward, says it takes about 50 telephone calls to find five substitutes when a regular...
...theory. Using tombstone inscriptions as a guide, he reports that life expectancy among the upper classes was 22-25 years; literary and census data indicate that the number of aristocratic births was remarkably low, "perhaps one-fourth of what would have been necessary to maintain their number." Over a period of generations, "this aristothanasia" wiped out the leaders of thought and culture...