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Word: turn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Syrian raid, Israeli jets attacked inside Syria's border for the first time since the 1967 war; the planes rocketed and strafed a guerrilla camp, wounding elev en soldiers. After Syria's riposte, Israel, if past patterns held true, could be expected to reply. That, in turn, would set off another cycle of violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Opening a Third Front | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

Quick Sniffers. Now one of the key villains is trying hard to turn hero. Until two years ago, Monsanto, the nation's third largest chemical company, paid little attention to the effects of the more than 300 products it makes at its headquarters plants around St. Louis. Then the city enacted some of the toughest air pollution ordinances in the U.S. Monsanto not only obeyed the laws-it set out to become a model antipolluter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Air: From Pollution to Profit | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...chief characteristics of the symposium are the sea and air and sun, and endless talk. Anthropologist Margaret Mead, who has been on all but one of the trips, says that the symposium is the closest thing she knows to the great English country house parties at the turn of the century, and the comparison is just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planners: Oracles at Delos | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...conservative, the individual has to have something to conserve. Wayne had made more money on horseback than Eddie Arcaro. He had property, a big rep and a new wife, Mexican-born Actress Esperanza Baur. He was Hollywood's super-American, whose unswerving motto was "Go West and turn right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: John Wayne as the Last Hero | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

M.T.A. officials vow that, given time, they can yet turn the ragged line into a modern system. That is possible; the Budd cars are a joy to ride in, when they are working. But the immediate prospect is for more trouble. Last week the M.T.A. pushed L.I.R.R. President Frank Aikman Jr. into early retirement, provoking charges from many commuters that Aikman is being made a scapegoat for the mistakes of Dr. William J. Ronan, the M.T.A. chairman, who is staying on. Aikman was replaced by Walter L. Schlager Jr., an executive from the New York City subway system. Harold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: A Model of Inefficiency | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

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