Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guarantee that the U.S. would help India to meet further Chinese Communist aggression. What mattered was the obvious strengthening of Indian-American friendship to a point where no such guarantee was necessary." In 1960, Dwight Eisenhower's last year in office, he may in a sense be the victim of his own success in 1959. Ahead lie his trip to the Soviet Union and a series of summit conferences?all carrying a special challenge, since the U.S. has become the home of so many hopes. For the same reason the U.S. will have less privacy and more urgency in facing...
Pamela Coffey was born three months prematurely, weighed only 2 Ibs. 2 oz. Overdosed with oxygen, she became a victim of retrolental fibroplasia, which damaged the retinas of thousands of U.S. premature babies before doctors reported the cause (TIME, Sept. 28, 1953). When Pamela's father, an Internal Revenue Service regional chief, was transferred to Atlanta, Bob Hogg's group sent a special teacher to help the Coffeys avoid the debilitating kindness that can stunt a blind child's spirit even more than its physical handicap. At home, Pamela was taught to dress herself and brush...