Word: soon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current phase of conflict started about 18 months ago with the appearance of sizable numbers of Arab guerrillas who called themselves "fedayeen" ("men of sacrifice"). Wellarmed, fairly well-trained, bound together by a mystical hatred of the Jews, the fedayeen swelled rapidly with recruits. Soon eleven different organizations, seven of which are loosely amalgamated and led by a burly fighter named Yasser Arafat (TIME cover, Dec. 13), were raiding Israel. Though most Arab governments were reluctant to give them open support for fear of retaliation, the fedayeen before long were powerful enough to defy the authorities. The fedayeen never were...
Hauck's action follows similar decisions by courts in Idaho and West Virginia. It provides new hope that the courts will soon strike down the super-majority provisions still in effect in 12 states, making it easier for school districts to approve the bond issues they so desperately need...
...into groups of 25, the black and white participants were instructed by their group leaders (who had been given intensive advance training) to make contact with each other, first by gesture, then by touch. During one of the exercises, in which emotions had to be expressed without speech, pats soon gave way to hugs between men and women and between blacks and whites. Some of the women could not hide their discomfort at their first physical contact with blacks. After one handshake, a black man said to a white woman, "Look-see-none of it rubbed off." One older white...
...exotic. Keith Gray, a hospital technician, swears that he would certainly have lasted out the 30 days if it hadn't been for "that lousy golf game last Sunday." A Greenfield housewife insists that she resumed smoking only to relieve mysterious nighttime stomach pains, which disappeared as soon as she broke...
...Soon Hanson spotted the demand among campers for extra convenience and decided to concentrate production on bigger motor homes. It was a timely switch. His line of six motor homes now accounts for 80% of the company's sales. The smallest models, about 17 ft. long-or two feet shorter than a full-sized station wagon-sell for $6,500. The 27-ft. model sleeps six, has a bedroom and kitchen and is priced at $11,210. Last year Winnebago made some 4,000 of the 18,000 motor homes sold in the U.S., and Hanson expects the market...