Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles honoring the astronauts, may a humble and grateful citizen say, "Thank you, Mr. President." Thank you for your boyish pride, your genuine affection for three gallant men, and most of all thank you for sharing it with me. I had a wonderful time. Where else could you see the Ambassador of Sweden, Rudy Vallee and an astronaut sit down together...
This week, however, the letter is from the editors of TIME, because its subject is publishers-past, present and future. Our colleague Jim Shepley is leaving his post at TIME to become president and chief operating officer of Time Inc., TIME'S parent company. We are sad to see him leave the magazine where, as he says, "I have spent 27 of my professional years in journalism...
...campuses were largely empty for the summer, and the questing young -more than 400,000 strong-gathered in upstate New York for a weekend rock festival that unfolded without violence in an Aquarian instant of communion and discovery (see TIME ESSAY). The ghettos stayed quiet, the number of significant uprisings well below that of the last four long hot summers. Last week, much of Negro America turned its eyes to a token of black pride, the newly crowned Miss Black America, a title won by New York's Gloria Smith from among 16 black beauties...
Laird pleads guilty only to wanting a strong bargaining position: "If you give the Russians anything before the talks begin, then either the negotiations never start or they drag on for several years without accomplishing anything. The Soviet Union will wait to see how much they can get before they sit down." McNamara, when he argued for arms control and against certain weapons projects, often provided a counterweight to civilian militarism on Capitol Hill. Today the balance is tipped sharply so that opposition to the military, particularly in the Senate, threatens to go to the opposite extreme. While...
...horror was too great to catch and hold with words, but a Welsh poet named Jeuan Gethin set down some measure of it: "We see death coming into our midst like black smoke, a plague which cuts off the young, a rootless phantom which has no mercy for fair countenance . . . It is seething, terrible, wherever it may come, a head that gives pain and causes a loud cry, a burden carried under the arms, a painful angry knob . . . " The phantom he described was bubonic plague, the Black Death that reached Sicily from the East in 1347 and within three years...