Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ablest announcers, in which Sylvia demonstrated the five best ways of making a TV speech: 1) from memory, 2) from notes, 3) using a Teleprompter, 4) combining notes and Teleprompter, 5) reading it in its entirety. The Queen selected No. 4. She wrote the speech herself, and her draft was care fully edited to eliminate clichés and pompous phrases...
Dreamboat Squealer Elvis Presley, 22, got a 60-day draft deferment in order to complete a movie (TIME, Dec. 30), prepared for his farewell to soft civilian life by donating a trunkful of his cuddly stuffed Teddy bears, plus two black and white toy pandas and a fake koala, to the March of Dimes for auctioning later this month...
...This statistical downtrend at year's end had economists and statesmen worried, particularly since some of the prophets saw the economy getting worse before it gets better. But even including the year-end dip, 1957 was a remarkable year for business. The U.S. economy had operated at forced draft for all but the final few months. And in so doing it produced what in many respects was the most prosperous year in history...
...John Foster Dulles in preparing for the NATO conference (TIME, Dec. 16), Adlai Ewing Stevenson was once again free to talk, once again assured of a Page One audience. Indeed he had more headline value than at any time since the 1956 campaign, when he advocated ending the military draft and abolishing hydrogen-bomb tests...
...failure,'' declared West Germany's Trierischer Volksfreund, saying what most chiefs of government recognized. But calculated leakage of exactly what each nation would propose had robbed the conference in advance of much of its potential dramatic impact. The U.S. delegation arrived in Paris with a draft of the final communique already prepared...