Word: conscious
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Peculiar Intensity. Throughout his stay in Georgia Ike had thrown himself into all of his activities with a peculiar intensity. There was a strong and probably conscious parallel between the physical exertions of his next to last full day at the Humphrey plantation and the day he had spent in Denver exactly five months earlier-the day before his heart attack. (In Denver, on Sept. 23, Ike shot 27 holes of golf. On the next to last day of his Georgia vacation he shot 18 holes of golf, hunted for two hours, sat up till 12:30 playing bridge.) There...
...outset Lo had used Chinese Red army troops for his pacification act. The Conference authorized him to create a new, politically conscious People's Armed Police like the Soviet MVD militia. Lo recruited and trained, technically and ideologically, thousands of trusted party workers and intellectuals, at the same time purging the existing forces of doubtful elements. He soon fashioned an organization of some eight interlocking bureaus specializing in intelligence, counterespionage, personnel, economic defense (i.e., preventing strikes, collecting taxes), frontier defense, anti-guerrilla work, supervising forced labor camps and normal police duties. Total strength: approximately...
...America-Conscious. Wide, Wide World (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC) has never quite managed the splendor imagined by its creator, but its TV cameras have looked into the Grand Canyon, crossed the seas to Bimini and Cuba, and gone over the border to Mexico and Canada. Under the guidance of M.C. Dave Garroway, the show has penetrated Carlsbad Caverns, looked east and west from the Continental Divide, plunged underwater in Florida. Up to 60 TV cameras have been used on a single show. Inaccessible spots were joined to the network by 75,000 miles of circuit cables, and more than...
...staff and is allowed about six weeks preparation for every show. This week they were at work on their twelfth program, encouraged by a contented sponsor (General Motors), a $125,000 weekly budget and the highest audience rating of any daytime show. Boasts Wood: "We have made more people conscious of what's in America than anything else on the air." By its very nature, WWW is in love with big effects. But some of its best moments have been small ones. The New Orleans Mardi gras parade seemed lifeless compared to the efforts of a few deaf children...
...cultural toddlers are cozily wrapped, undertakes the task of explaining March to American readers. Cooke makes a sound observation: March "is wholly free from the characteristics of contemporary American fiction that have come to be fashionable: from the tough monosyllabic narrative style; from the vaguely liberal humanitarianism . . . the self-conscious regionalism...