Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...packed with newsmen, the curtain went up on The Case of Colonel Nickerson. It was soon obvious from the first act, and to no one's surprise, that the great drama had turned into something akin to a forum for Colonel Nickerson. First off, Nickerson pleaded guilty in effect to charges of laxity, whereupon the Army dropped the tough specifications about espionage and perjury (and thus reduced the sentence). Then, Nickerson's civilian counsel Ray H. Jenkins (of Army-McCarthy fame) produced, one by one, a galaxy of star witnesses including the creator of Hitler...
...Bishop of Mün-ster, Dr. Michael Keller, last month told Catholic workers that as Catholics they should consider themselves prohibited from voting Socialist. "It is a question of conscience, not one of political judgment," he said. Though Adenauer's Christian Democratic leaders privately welcomed the effect the bishop's pronouncement would have on rural and women voters, they were careful not to endorse the bishop's views publicly: they do not want to alienate Protestant voters in the fall's national elections...
Technically, stereophonic recording has come a long way. Early tapes sometimes had a solo singer's voice volleying from one speaker to the other like a hopped-up tennis ball. That exaggerated effect (due to incorrect microphone placement during the recording session) is now gone. Few who have heard really good stereo will ever be satisfied with anything else. As a demonstration of just how fi stereo has become, a team of acoustical engineers put concealed speakers on the stage of San Francisco's Opera House. The San Francisco Symphony went through the motions of playing while...
Billy himself is exuberant. "The biggest crusade we have ever had," he told a press conference. "Not the deepest, of course, or the one with the most lasting effect. Just the biggest in terms of people...
...spiritual event can ever be wholly represented in statistics or evaluated at the time it happens. The impact of Graham's preaching may bear immeasurable fruit months and years hence, in unforeseen ways. But at present, in concrete, reportable terms, Crusader Graham's effect on the big city is negligible...