Word: women
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secretary from the Women's Auxiliary of Congregation Emanu-El picks up copies of the magazine each week at the ground-floor newsstand of the Time & Life Building in midtown Manhattan. The copies are rushed to the temple's offices on upper Fifth Avenue, where women volunteers begin the task of transcribing TIME'S text into sound. Starting with this page, the women record the entire contents, including descriptions of charts, onto disks-a task involving eight hours of reading the magazine's nearly 60,000 editorial words...
...interfaith relations and current affairs. Once when he mentioned to a friend that TIME would be a tremendous asset to him, the friend introduced him to Mrs. Joseph Brand, who set the volunteer program in motion. Starting this week, one of our messengers will hurry the magazine to the women as soon as it arrives from the printing plant...
DRESSED in old clothes and overalls, the 5,000 suburbanites-men, women and children-looked ready for weekend chores in house or garden. Instead, they were on their way to help thousands of New York City slum dwellers clean, repair, paint and decorate 43 of the city's grimiest, grittiest blocks. By nightfall, when residents gave their guests an outdoor buffet, the scabrous streets were conspicuously cleaner and perhaps a little more habitable, with balloons waving from fire escapes and pastels brightening alleyways...
...been depilating so steadily that he may soon look like a Marine boot-deliberately courted more mature audiences than the screaming bobby-hoppers that so often greet him. But age made little difference. Visiting an electronics plant near Portland, Ore., Kennedy encountered the same ecstatic squeals-from middle-aged women. Oddly enough, it was at the University of San Francisco, hard by the Haight-Ashbury, that Bobby encountered the most unbridled hostility of his campaign-from heckling hippies...
...When the Women's Ivy League Swimming and Basketball Championships were contested this winter at Harvard, the athletic competition featured more than just the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. Whoever scheduled the tournaments for the second weekend of February, you see, apparently didn't check in with the weatherman beforehand. As a result, coming as they did the weekend after The Storm, the championships also introduced a new element to sporting competition, the torture of traveling...