Word: supplementals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kwashiorlcor Again. Cut off from all supplies except by air, Biafra needs 500 tons of food by air each day to supplement its crops. Since the recent downing of a Red Cross food plane by Nigerian MIGs (see color opposite), relief planes paid for by Catholic and Protestant charities have been able to bring in less than 100 tons weekly. As a result, an often-fatal protein-deficiency disease called kwashiorkor has broken out again, mostly among children...
Employer of Last Resort. Most of the first round of criticism was aimed at welfare reform, and both liberals and conservatives joined in the firing. Overall, they praised Nixon's desire to combine an income supplement to the working poor with a national minimum welfare benefit, but they severely scored the way the Administration proposed to make the new system work...
...garbage out through still another. Its entertainers, parking-lot attendants and even its hat check girls must always be approved by the Mob?and sometimes they must kick back part of what they take in. When the gangsters were big in Las Vegas, they sometimes used skimmed cash to supplement the fees paid to featured performers. The under-the-table funds went untaxed and left the compliant performer with an obligation. This was repayed by appearances elsewhere at the Mob's request...
...major story, a succession of 18-and 20-hour days is not in the least unusual. But for TIME'S Apollo space team, the days have grown into weeks. Associate Editor Leon Jaroff and Senior Editor Ronald Kriss had no sooner wrapped up our 14-page special Moon Supplement than they were right back at work, with only one day of rest, writing and editing this week's cover story on the historic mission itself. And this time the work stretched on for eight uninterrupted days. Although TIME ordinarily closes on Saturday evening, we felt compelled to hold...
Four of TIME'S Apollo 11 team are pictured above with famed Space Writer Arthur C. Clarke, who made his own contribution to the supplement. They are standing before a mock-up of LM, the lunar module, part of a new display in the Time & Life Exhibition Center, which includes models of Saturn V, Surveyor, Ranger and Lunar Orbiter, along with an astronaut manikin standing on a simulated piece of the moon...