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Word: van (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long as 2,000 years afterward, the scientists estimate, the field will be so weak that it will not trap high-velocity electrons and protons streaming toward the earth from the sun. Instead of being confined by the magnetic lines of force to the Van Allen radiation belt, many of these particles will penetrate the atmosphere and strike the surface of the earth-causing an increase in mutation rates at best, eradicating entire species of animals and plants at worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geophysics: A New Doomsday? | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

...journalists, to be sure, are not the only ones becoming vulnerable and restive. But the first war to be thoroughly covered by television is most perilous for the TV crews in the van. To the men in the field, network managing editors back in New York seem obsessed with "the wire-service syndrome" - they ask for coverage of every bit of action. Says one embittered TV staffer: "Editors are so afraid of missing one story that to protect their flanks they have been asking us to risk getting our tails shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newscasting: The Men Without Helmets | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

...Gold cigarette posters and bound volumes of Superman comics. Merkin adopts the look of the past as well as pasting it together; he owns seven white, plaid or pinstripe suits (all with vest and broad lapels) and 175 ties (mostly pink and lavender), parts his hair like a Van Heusen shirt model, sports a Groucho Marx mustache and smokes Murads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Thirties on Their Minds | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

Even if cassettes do not evenutally triumph in this field, Philips Executive Anton van den Brink points to another major role for them that may be no more than five years away: the video tape cassette, which would be hooked into television sets to provide an almost unlimited range of sights simultaneously with sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recordings: Riding the Reels | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...through a tape-recorder. A conversation is heard. The flower child finds a blackjacket friend reading Bronze Beauties Revue on the front seat of a broken-down auto. They talk in silence. Close the scene with a shot of the flower child sikpping stones. Near him a broken-down van sunk in backwater...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: Desire Is the Fire | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

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