Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stomach-churning arcs as it was lifted to the helicopter. Astronaut Schweickart, the next passenger, was splashed through the water on the first swing of the sling. Astronaut McDivitt was forced to take refuge on the flotation collar when the wind flipped over his raft. McDivitt got a thorough soaking and dizzying spin before he was lifted safely aboard the helicopter. Although the astronauts were probably never in real danger, the recovery provided exciting counterpoint to Apollo 9's final days of routine space flight...
...hope they'll come in regularly, get to know their Physician well," he says. When people join the plan, they will have a thorough examination. In the unstructured way that most Americans guard their health, five or ten years may elapse between exams. Under the health plan, however, the aim will be on constantly-supervised care. The initial exam--accompanied by a barrage of "screening test"--may be able to pick up many potential problems long before they erupt. From the beginning, health plan physicians will emphasize nipping illness while it's easy to nip instead of waiting...
...DAYS: THE SIEGE OF LENINGRAD, by Harrison E. Salisbury. A most thorough account of the Nazi siege of Leningrad, in which 1,500,000 Russian civilians died of gunfire and starvation...
...equal care. Senior Correspondent John Steele traveled the presidential route as a journalistic advance man, reporting on the mood of the various capitals that Nixon will visit. Across Europe, TIME bureau chiefs scheduled interviews with diplomats, financial experts and military men to bolster their own observations and put together thorough reports on the problems that the new U.S. President is likely to face. From Washington to Rome, TIME correspondents cabled files...
...poses a particular challenge to the present structure of undergraduate life. The House system in particular works splendidly in terms of the traditional Harvard goal of "integrating" students from a variety of backgrounds. But the black students feel that the system, by its very nature, works a perhaps too thorough fragmentation of the black student community, most obviously at Radcliffe, where dispersal of black students has, at least in the past, led to the assignment of but a single black student in one residence hall...