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They took Walter Reuther's cue...
...answer to the question: "How close are we to a cue for polio?", Enders yesterday said that "a cure is not very near, but there is a good possibility that we may soon be able to prevent the disease...
...whole mess began, as such things will, when a fine picture, Battleground, unhappily dedicated itself "to the bloody bastards of Bastogne." This recalled the days of World War II, when patriotism excused most anything. Taking its cue from a good movie, the next was dedicated to the principle that a heavily advertised epithet would be a sure attraction, particularly when surrounded by the glamor of topical heroism. So for weeks a bass voice, in thrilling tones, kept shouting "Retreat, Hell" over the radio to herald a really inferior war picture. After Retreat, Hell came the Miracle and The Moon...
...when he remembered they were in place on a walnut desk in the studio. A technician gave the two-minute warning, and Ike took his position in front of the desk. Two easels, out of camera range in front of the desk, supported stacks of 3-by-4-ft. cue cards, designed to allow him to get through the speech without reading from a text. The deathly quiet of the studio was broken by a network announcer: "Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States...
...counteract all this, says Eells, the U.S. should double its own efforts in the field of education. But in doing so, it could well take a cue from the Soviet. In not one of the countries that he visited, says Eells, did he hear of "any reports of cuts in the staff or services in any of the Soviet information services and libraries...