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Word: sightedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many, it looked last week as if the new President's honeymoon was ending with his first tough decision. That judgment seems premature-but the beginning of the end of forbearance and tolerance is probably in sight. Nixon's gamble is that the ABM will prove technically workable within the next five years. More vital than its defensive value, perhaps, is how important any ABM system may prove to be in dealings with the Russians on such urgent questions as arms control and Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE ABM: NOT REALLY SETTLED | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...erected in a treetop where they hover in holding patterns. Here the danger is perhaps greater. Other planes from Gabon loaded with arms and ammunition also join the pattern; sometimes as many as 20 ships are circling simultaneously, some assigned the same altitudes by inexperienced Biafran ground controllers. The sight of fire-bright exhausts in the African night is slim comfort to other flyers. Says Swedish Pilot Ulf Engelbrecht: "If all the pilots some night were to turn on rotating beacons and clearance lights, a dozen of them would die of fright at their proximity to one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biafra: Come on Down and Get Killed | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...fighters and countrymen loved him, and they did, it was because Zapata never lost sight of their values. His own desires for change never outstripped theirs. If he was limited as a revolutionary, it was because his followers were limited...

Author: By Carter Wilson, | Title: Zapata and the Mexican Revolution | 3/19/1969 | See Source »

...they intend to give the students a voice in the decisions that affect their life and work in the University. But I seriously question how the members of these organizations can claim to represent the students in their own committees, much less before the Faculty or the administration. . . . The sight of a prominent HUC member complaining that "there is no way to become a big man on campus" certainly makes one wonder how much his desires for student representation on the Faculty is motivated by the desire for a larger audience. Hearing a SFAC delegate say that "even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT POLS | 3/13/1969 | See Source »

Cooper added that "financial aid today is following a consistently increasing trend that has no end in sight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Financial Aid At B-School Increases for Minorities | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

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