Word: robins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skiing team's win earned Radcliffe its fourth consecutive Women's Intercollegiate Ski Conference title, narrowly outpointing Middlebury and Plymouth State on February 7. A sweep of the first two places in the Slalom by Julie Meck and Robin Barnes were the major factors in the 'Cliffie's victory...
Contributing Editor Robin Man-nock is no stranger to the more rigorous aspects of journalism. He covered the Congo fighting in 1964 and rode into Stanleyville with a truckload of mercenaries. His seat that night was a case of dynamite. More recently, Mannock did a stretch of war reporting in Viet Nam. But neither there nor in Africa, he says, was he ever in quite as much danger as he was in last week, while visiting Alaska. With the aid of TIME'S Anchorage Stringer, Joe Rychetnik, Mannock wangled his way into some winter war games...
...under arms. A concerted government drive led by the late Ramon Magsaysay, then Defense Secretary, whittled that number down drastically, but did not succeed in stamping out the insurgents. To thousands of peasants, the Huks, an odd farrago of idealistic reformers, nationalists, Communists and mere bandits, are still Robin Hoods who mete out swift and bloody justice to cattle thieves and heavy-handed officials. To the government, they are dangerously politicized criminals who must be eradicated...
...carom-fighting" (jabbing at a spouse by mocking his religion or his child by a former marriage), "hit and run" (saying "You made me lose my appetite" in the middle of dinner), and "psychoanalysis" ("Your childhood was more pathogenic than mine, you poor thing!"). Though less neurotic, "round-robin" fighters share a too pessimistic view that they cannot change either themselves or their relationship. Insensitive to possible compromises, they are trapped in the stalemate of "God, how many times have we been through all this before?" and the tune-out of "Here we go again...
...daily violence. Often, of course, Negro slum dwellers not only passively accept crime but also actively admire the criminals - especially if their victims are white. Many Harlemites, said a local N.A.A.C.P. official recently, "seem to have the idea that [black criminals] are some sort of 20th century Robin Hoods...