Word: bitting
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Matched against the 158-man U.S. contingent, the four Russian newsmen seemed lost in the 1,174-man army of correspondents and technicians from 56 nations that swarmed through Geneva last week. But the Russians cared not a bit. Long on record as thinking the Big Four foreign ministers' conference a time-wasting prelude to the summit, the Russian government was out to shape the news, not report it. And Soviet press pitchmanship was an outstanding feature of the first conference week...
...interplanetary space is too thin to carry ordinary shock waves, which propagate by gas molecules bumping against each other. But solar shock waves, he argued, are different. They are caused by solar magnetic fields expanding suddenly into space and pushing ionized gas ahead of them. "It is a bit like a weather front," he explains. "Before, you are living in a very quiet zone. Suddenly a front sweeps over, and behind this front is a region of great disturbance and turbulence...
...does not contain even one picture of the exterior of a Radcliffe building--not the Fay House gate nor Agassiz nor even a dormitory. And while the faculty is certainly a vital part of a Radcliffe education, devoting one-fifth of the total pages to the professors seems a bit over-generous...
...medium that once saw Bishop Sheen and Arthur Godfrey nominated for the same award ("Outstanding Personality of the Year") had changed not a bit. The academy this time managed to match lightfooted Fred Astaire with Actor Christopher Plummer and 14-year-old Robert Crawford in the race for "Best Single Performance by an Actor." Winner: Hoofer Astaire. (Astaire also won eight other awards, exactly 27 lbs. of Emmys, all for his memorable song-and-dance show last October.) The catalogue of categories seemed endless. On and on it went, until one irritated critic was moved to ask: "Is there...
...takes quite a bit of nerve," Alberg remarked, "for people to send out letters in their own behalf and not sign them, but this can be expected from members of the squirt-gun set." Long later explained that "one day, in the exuberance of spring, a member of the club brought in a water gun and we started squirting each other...