Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...questioner was Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peru's vigorous and imaginative president, and the person he was putting on during a lull in the Punta del Este summit conference last week was Jerry Hannifin, Latin America specialist in our Washington bureau. Hannifin, along with White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey and a team of other TIME reporters and photographers, was covering the inter-American gathering at Uruguay's seaside playground, a gathering described by President Frei of Chile as "the most important in hemisphere history...
Twenty-six women -- including a marine biologist, the editor of a local newspaper, and a specialist in American bookbinding -- were appointed to the Radcliffe Institute yesterday...
...official newspaper of the youth organization, Komsomolskaya Pravda, 96.7 percent of those returning questionnaires indicated that they had a personal goal in life. Only 14.9 percent, however, said that they wished to become "real communists." Most were concerned with their own personal development--with becoming a specialist, "with achieving something outstanding," and the like. Concern for the development of the individual personality, and with freedom of thought so as to find the "truth" showed up quite clearly in this survey...
...After his twin brother, mother and father got home from a European vacation, Jacobs began a gargantuan literary task: he wrote some 300 letters to his family, more to his Stateside friends, telling what the war was like and what it was about. Because of his interests and talents, Specialist Fourth Class Jacobs was tapped as a combat correspondent, a job that took him to the ever-changing front lines and gave him a chance to see more of the war than most of his rank. To his family and friends, he wrote what he saw and felt...
...Their Knees. Even so, more than a third of the American perimeter caved in, yielding yard by yard to Viet Cong pressure. Young troopers took reckless chances to fetch more bullets and grenades. Using his master sergeant as a sort of artillery spotter, Specialist Four Samuel Townsend, 21, a draftee and former high-school athlete from Detroit, pitched grenades with deadly accuracy at an enemy now less than 30 yds. away. In some spots the fighting was even closer. Private First Class Edward Edwards, 20, clubbed down one surprised Viet Cong with his rifle butt. SP4 Richard Hazel, 21, sprinting...