Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief American contribution to tactics, Morison claimed, was Operation Overlord, which Churchill opposed. In support of the Operation, the University historian said, "I believe that, but for the insistent, often rude pressure by Roosevelt, Marshall and Eisenhower ... to cross the Channel in 1944 ... London would certainly have been laid flat by the V-1 bombs and V-2 rockets. The war with Germany would not have ended until...
POWER SWAP will be made via underwater cable between Britain, whose coal-burning power plants are overworked in winter, and France, whose hydroelectric plants have surplus of water for power in winter but shortage in summer. Construction of $11 million English Channel cable starts this fall, and by 1960 it will have capacity...
Beaver's Bite. The British critics' chief target is the Independent Television Authority's commercial Channel 9, which is so U.S.-infected as to make BBC seem "a stern, inflexible nurse of home-grown talent." Johnnie Ray turned up as the star performer of Easter Sunday's feature program. Sniggered the Express: "Twiddle the dial any evening, and the chances are that the crack of a shot in Dragnet will set the objets d'art tinkling on your chimney piece. Or that pathetic crib of an American quiz show, The $64,000 Question, will dribble...
Insidious Influence. Lord Beaverbrook was not silenced. His Evening Standard retorted: "A lame reply to those who criticize Channel 9's American accent. The influence is most insidious and gives serious cause for complaint . . . The U.S. puts its views in a famous program: the Voice of America. There is no need for Sir Robert to double this role...
...object of interest, but there is no organized effort to help him integrate into the Harvard community and feel at home here, or to make him familiar with the customs and attitudes of the country he is studying in. There has long been a need for a channel of contact with American fellow students of similar academic and extra-curricular interests...