Word: desks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regular editor of that section, Canadian John M. Scott, stepped away from his desk in Montreal for two weeks to bring his expertise to the World cover story. Also lending special knowledge on the research side was the Canada staff's Beth Cattley, who grew up at the other end of Canada (in Fredericton, N.B.), first got to know and love the West when she trained there with the Royal Canadian Air Force (she came out with the rank of flying officer). For an outsider's impressions of the West's wonders, World Editor Edward Hughes sent...
When Marcos stepped up to a small podium beneath the Speaker's desk in the House to address a joint session of Congress, he regained the spotlight with a carefully reasoned plea for a continued U.S. presence in Asia (see ESSAY). "Today we send our sons in total commitment to South Viet Nam on an errand of mercy, although we face the retaliation of armed Communism in our own land," he said. Eying Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright who sat-on his hands -a few rows away, he said: "We note a hesitancy, some frustration...
...Austrian poet-playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Placing his hand on Rudi's shoulder, the venerable man pronounced: "This is not a little boy but a child of the muses." His teachers found that hard to believe. On his first day at school, Rudi got up from his desk and began putting on his coat. "What are you doing?" the teacher demanded. "Thank you very much," he replied, "but I have had enough." He wasn't kidding. In the years following, he was, by his own admission, "thrown out of every school in Austria. I absolutely hated school...
...hums some aria playing through his mind (he also knows the words and music to more than 1,000 lieder, continually amazes the singers by quoting snatches of librettos from obscure operas). At night, sitting in his office, he has been known to sneak a baton out of his desk drawer and direct with full arm movements the music pouring over the house speaker system...
...could find his desk. Switch board operators, unfamiliar with the personnel, fouled up phone calls. Files were locked and the keys were missing. Page proofs were misplaced and lost for hours. Copy boys, new to the neighborhood, wasted precious time on the coffee run. Then, when the presses were finally ready to roll with the first issue of the World Journal Tribune last week, pressmen balked at the, plan to have Mayor Lindsay press the starting button. After all, he is not a union...