Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Power-conscious Arthur Langlie is not against public power per se, is opposed to the Federal Government's pre-emption of power projects where local public and private power groups could accomplish the same...
...many a news-conscious visitor the biggest surprise in San Francisco last week was the sight of that morning's New York Times at the breakfast table. Each day during the Republican National Convention the Times sped across the continent through new facsimile equipment, using a TV microwave relay circuit. By getting out 20,000 daily free copies of a special, ten-page, adless edition, the Times demonstrated that, technically at least, a truly national U.S. newspaper is within reach...
...whether his pictures are sufficiently rich in color, firm in drawing and subtle in composition to live beyond the grave is another question. Masterpieces generally are constructed either with the utmost care and polish or else with what Transcendentalist Emerson himself called "nerve and dagger." Wight is too self-conscious to be really bold, too rushed to polish much...
Died. Samuel McPherson ("Golf Bag") Hunt, 55, legendary disciplinarian for Al Capone, who scorned the traditional violin case, jolted fashion-conscious Chicago colleagues by carrying his submachine gun where his mashie should have been (and reputedly dubbed his first shot, whose target survived to be known as "Sam Hunt's Hole in One"), was arrested for many Chicago murders, convicted for none during Prohibition years and the decade following, later became the man to see in Chicago bookmaking; of heart disease and pneumonia; in Schenectady...
...impact on the convention was emphasized from the start, when Paul Butler surprised everybody by banging the gavel on time. And in a sense, TV itself could be blamed for much of the tedium. Almost every speaker, painfully conscious of the camera's eye, addressed himself to "you who are watching TV." The galluses, the sweat, the unguarded gestures, the open shirts and bold-patterned ties were gone for good...