Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year BBC's television unit will begin what Program Director Cecil McGivern calls "the real guts of television" -a series of documentary studies of coal production, infantile paralysis, housing, other problems. McGivern believes that television is "far more effective than the written word, the spoken word, or the movies. ... It will be the biggest social force ever...
...truth is not so simple. There are many roads to power and Communists are willing to use them all. So resistance to the Reds takes many forms. Some of them are in the Communists' own conspiratorial patterns. A reporter tracing anti-Communist forces in Milan this month could begin in the Great Hall of Sacred Heart University, on the day of Milan's patron saint, and arrive by a fairly short line at a midnight session with machine guns of the Catholic underground...
Fireworks in Heaven. Such pageants usually began with street processions leading to the churches and cathedrals where the plays were performed. When all were inside, and waiting in one vast hush for the wonders to begin, God the Father would suddenly appear above them, on an airy platform surrounded by choirs of angels, flowers and revolving wheels of fireworks whose sparks, floating upwards like distant suns among the vaulted shadows, more than once ignited, the roof...
Industry, said Charles Wilson, has now benefited from the technological gains of the war. It is in a position where "it normally could begin to roll back prices." Then why doesn't it? There are several reasons, as G.E.'s president sees it. For one, industry has to know what the Government policy will be on price control. More important, it must know what union labor intends...
Togliatti was as candid as he was articulate. Most men of 54 should begin to show the wear of work like organizing Italian Communism's winter offensive, traveling the country to address rallies when he can escape his almost daily duties in Parliament, writing editorials for his press, hammering out the rough issues of party discipline. But Togliatti's eyes were brighter, the lines in his face less deep, the broad grin quicker and more assured than I had ever seen them before...