Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Coast television audience saw a new kind of dramatic show last week. For 15 hours and 50 minutes, a camera boat followed Florence Chadwick (first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions) in her course across the choppy 21-mile Catalina channel off San Pedro, Calif. Finally, cold, exhausted and bucking a four-knot current, she signaled her helpers to pull her into the boat less than a mile from shore...
Born in the Channel Islands, Haley quit school at 16 to go to sea as a telegrapher on a tramp steamer. Later, he cubbed on a provincial paper, did his brief stint on the Times and went up to Manchester to become a reporter on the Evening News. In a short time he was named news editor. He disdained a desk, worked standing up at a breast-high table so he would lose no time dashing off to composing room or editor's office. His nose for news was so sharp that, at 29, he was named editor...
...when Alben Barkley was asked if he intended to retire after his term as Vice President, he borrowed an old Southern political expression for his answer: "You can't resist the clamorment of the people." Last week, with both ears fine-tuned to the clamorment channel, the Vice President announced that he will accept the presidential nomination if it comes...
...story is of two adolescents emerging from the gawkiness of childhood to discover that they are possessed with emotions. Coming from families who never taught them the facts of life, Franco and Mirella find themselves at a loss either to explain or to channel these new-found emotions. How they resolve their conflicts in the face of hostile parents and a bigoted school system is an enthralling and delicately-done tale...
Last week, after being picked up from a dinghy in the English Channel by a helicopter, Johnston suddenly announced that he was through with stunting and would go back to cricket. "Frankly, old man," he told a reporter, "I hate danger...