Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). U.S. Allstars meet a touring Russian basketball team in San Francisco...
...decree was another step in Franco's march away from isolation and tyranny. With the passions of the Civil War now all but dead, with a booming economy and a growing middle class, and with the political currents of the Western world whistling through Spain's wide-open doors, the pace of the march has been quickening...
Fitzgerald is best known for his fast-paced, soaring 1961 translation of Homer's Odyssey. He has written three books of his own wide-ranging poetry, but in recent years, living in Italy, he has devoted himself largely to critical writing and visiting lectures at U.S. colleges. A graduate of Choate and Harvard and a student at Cambridge's Trinity College, he worked for the New York Herald Tribune before joining TIME from 1936 to 1949, mainly as a book reviewer. He went to Harvard's English department to lecture on comparative literature only last fall, considers...
...little piggy-bank launching--$7000 and a mailing list of 5500 "elderly radicals"--but mushroomed as the blather of the McCarthy years subsided and people grew less frightened. Today it boasts 22,000 readers -not an eye-popping figure, but Stone has no illusions about reaching a wide audience...
What strikes one most forcefully about Mr. Stone is that he is a terribly happy man. "What made you start your paper?" a student asks. "There was no alternative. I was in despair," he replies, a big wide grin spread across his face. Only a happy heretic knows that kind of despair. Even bemoaning our policy in Cuba or Vietnam, his most concerned expressions are always dissolving into smiles...