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...they echoed around the world last week, two of the season's most quoted Christmas messages came through clearer than they had in the original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Clarifying Echoes | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...Toscanini first walked into NBC's studio 8-H, he clapped his hands, heard the echo die within a second and passed his judgment: "Too sec" i.e., dry. He was referring to the shorter reverberation time, achieved by acoustical engineers who could prove that it made music sound clearer. At Kresge, the reverberation time is 1½ seconds, actually a compromise, but unusually sec to conventional ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The New Sound | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

This is to be regretted, because the significance of the Till case could not have been much clearer to Mr. Halberstam if he had been familiar with the Scottsboro case of the 1930's, when nine men were railroaded to death and to jail, and almost nothing of the furor of the Till case was heard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Series on Negro in South Draws Readers' Questions | 12/16/1955 | See Source »

...record each candidate's stand on the sole question of urban renewal in Cambridge. But the 50-word statements collected by the League offer little help, for most candidates say only that they are for good and against evil. A glance at the actual voting record, however, gives a clearer picture: the four CCA Councillors voted solidly for a definite program of slum clearance, while Edward J. Sullivan and John D. Lynch, two "independents" who are running for re-election, opposed the project...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CCA for City Council | 10/28/1955 | See Source »

Most Republican leaders refused to talk politics in public until the President is heard from. But wherever Republicans gathered, the conversation was bound to be urgent. Obviously, plans of attack were being drawn, and just as obviously the figure of Vice President Richard Nixon was growing larger and clearer in the G.O.P. picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Dodo's Dance | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

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