Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...valleys behind the enemy lines, where Meo tribesmen gathered as many as 400 strong to greet their new weapons and instructors. The Meo's Colonel Vang Phao now runs a mortar and rifle range in the mountains with U.S. help. One Meo guerrilla band ambushed a Pathet Lao column last week, killed 30 and wounded some 60 more...
Ralph McGill, Atlanta editor, got it. Quoting four paragraphs, he called the pastorals "important ... a wise policy." The New York Times devoted a full column to the story, quoting the statement: "This affirmation for our diocese is not just a minimum approach to full Christian justice. In a region where our Catholic population is less than 2%, it is an honest effort to influence a way of life that has prevailed for many decades." TIME'S correspondent telephoned...
Most Exchange experts think the solution is a whole new ticker system. A leading prospect: a high-speed telegraphic page printer that operates at 900 characters a minute. Developed by Teletype Inc., a subsidiary of Western Electric, it uses a 3½-in. roll of paper, prints a vertical column with the stock symbol, volume and price all on one line. The Exchange will test a prototype in the summer, hopes to switch to a new system as soon as possible. But the problem is formidable: Thousands of stock tickers that are geared to the old narrower tape will have...
Canaday, 54, came to the Times in 1959 after a career of teaching (University of Virginia, Tulane) and heading up the educational activities of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Almost from his first column, he infuriated the abstract expressionists, chiefly by the wicked suggestion that although what they painted might be art, it could also be fraud. He lamented the school's influence, questioned its competence, doubted its goals, even predicted its eventual demise...
During the Sacco-Venzetti trial, Heywood Broun was writing a column for the New York World. Head of a committee to free the convicted men, his writing became passionate. The World, which pursued a more moderate course, fired Broun after requesting that he remain silent on the subject...