Word: blackboarding
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...Author Quincy (The World We Lost) Howe, Erwin Canham (Christian Science Monitor) and Ernest Lindley (Newsweek). CBS's Sevareid-Murrow duo this time worried less about making history than reporting it, and NBC laid on durable old (78) Hans V. Kaltenborn (it was his 18th convention) with his blackboard doodlings and a lofty contempt for all the fancy new gadgetry. The NBC tète-à-tètes were again larded with the deadpan humor of Commentator David Brinkley. Between conventions, ABC's baggy-eyed John Daly squeezed in a Manhattan trip to appear on What...
...happened. Chaperoned by Jim Hagerty, Surgeon Heaton and two other doctors filed into the Walter Reed conference room. Surgeon Heaton, cool and calm in a fresh summer suit, spoke slowly and distinctly, pacing himself by watching the pencils of newsmen. He read a formal report, then used a blackboard diagram to explain further...
...room in suburban Tokyo looked like any big classroom; on a dais at one end stood a desk and chair, behind them a blackboard. Some 250 people had checked their shoes at the door and filled the benches. Most of them were young; many wore the black, brass-buttoned uniform of the Japanese university student. Tadao Yanaihara, president of Tokyo University, entered, and the audience rose and bowed. They sang a hymn. Then Yanaihara sat down at the desk and lectured on the Bible for two hours and five minutes...
Earthly Instrument. In Aiken, S.C., police looked for the thief who broke into The Church of God, stole twelve folding chairs, a Sunday-school bell, a blackboard, an oil heater and several hymnals, left a note: "To Whom It May Concern: The chairs and items are not taken without just cause, but were taken as a loan and will be returned soon. This is the will...
...city. The well-to-do residents emigrate to more attractive suburban areas. The tax base decreases, and the tax rate climbs. Industry is driven out by taxes and the environment. Municipal service grows worse, as the need grows greater. Crime and delinquency rates rise, disease increases, and schools become blackboard jungles. In short, the familiar pattern of metropolitan slum living becomes inescapable...