Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refuse to join the alliance if the board was included in the plan. But after checking with Buenos Aires,*the Argentine delegates finally agreed to a new compromise: a nine-man board of advisers that could criticize but not act. As the U.S. delegation sat conspicuously in the background, Argentina, Brazil, Chile. Mexico and Peru got to work on the final draft of a proposal officially launching the Alliance for Progress...
Berlin: Act of War? (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). This CBS News special presents the background of the current Berlin crisis, including interviews with West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt and East Germany's Red Propaganda Chief Gerhart Eisler...
...instantly, singing, strumming, and turning out a kind of natural-seven Muzak that held the crowds in the casino and skyrocketed the late late take. Hooked two ways, fans now stay around as much to hear the trio as to shoot craps, and the group is no longer just background music: it has become one of the top draws in Vegas. Currently at the Sahara, Mary Kaye & Co. will earn about a quarter of a million dollars in a 22-week stand this season. Also, they perform at San Francisco's Fairmont and Los Angeles' Crescendo, and have...
...Woman at the Fountain a hole in the head, tore a new twist in a cubist Picasso, Lady with a Hat, made off with four-fifths of a Miro, and, in seizing Leger's Composition with Three Sisters, left behind a patch of the girls' background. Ignorantly mistaking a paper strip of a Picasso collage for the whole work of art. they tried to rip it off and ruined a work valued at more than $100,000. They got away with six Picassos, two Legers, a Miro and a Dufy. Loss, between damage and loot...
...trusty radio in hand, and tune in on the sportscaster to be certain that the announcer sees what the bleacherite sees; sometimes the fan tunes in a second ball game and, by concentrating hard, follows both at once, even if no one else can. With his built-in portable background music, a lonely boy can entice and entertain a girl without need for conversation, and when the romance dies, there is still the transistor for company...