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Word: sighting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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HIGH AND LOW. Without a samurai in sight, Japanese Director Akira Kurosawa sets the screen crackling with excitement as his camera trails a vicious kidnaper through the Yokohama underworld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 20, 1963 | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

Except for short walks with her sister Lee Radziwill or Caroline, Jacqueline Kennedy stayed mostly out of public sight in the Georgetown house that she had borrowed from the Averell Harrimans. Press Secretary Pamela Turnure came and went; deliverymen made their rounds; friends and relations came to call. Dave Powers, her husband's Bos ton friend, stayed for lunch one day; Bobby Kennedy dropped in often. There were the holidays to plan for. They would be spent in Palm Beach, in a house borrowed from a family friend, C. Michael Paul, near the Joseph Kennedys. And, it was announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: Change of Address | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

...often impossible to tell who is winning, but there is no end in sight to a decade of fighting

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: SOUTH VIET NAM | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

...spectacular feats against the Viet Cong although they have plans on the drawing boards, and government forces last week captured more weapons than they lost for the first time in months. Everywhere one travels, and the only safe mode of travel is by helicopter, the countryside is a dismal sight of actual or threatened Viet Cong control. In the delta to the south, and in two or three provinces around Saigon, there is no doubt of who controls the boondocks. Of mounting concern is the Communists' increased hold on vital Long An province on Saigon's southern flank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: SOUTH VIET NAM | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

Thundering Express. Yet most Nubians were appalled by the first sight of their new home. Groaned one old man: "I used to be awakened each morning by the murmuring river waters. Now it is the dawn Cairo express from Aswan thundering in my ears." In Nubia, polygamous husbands had separate houses for each wife; at Kom Ombo, a man's wives must share his house, and many husbands, dismayed by the prospect, have divorced all wives save one. But a man who risked keeping both his wives concedes that the arrangement has advantages. "Here I do not have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: Exodus From Nubia | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

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