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...people had not been talked to like that in a long time. LaGuardia's shrill scolding made them wince-momentarily, at least. But they still paid scant attention to the grave admonitions of Herbert Hoover, from that faraway, hungry continent of Europe (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Angeles, on ABC's unrehearsed Bride & Groom program (TIME, Dec. 17), Emcee John Nelson, vimful of interest, asked impending groom Monroe St. John: "Did you propose, or did Jane [Pedley]?" Replied St. John, with a faraway look in his eyes: ". . . We were just lying down on the-" (Emcee Nelson interrupted, in a rapid gasp: "You were sitting this...
Winston Churchill, who had supported the hated Act, was holidaying in faraway Florida, but Ernie knew his words would carry that far. "I regret he is not in his place," he bawled, with a baleful glare at Anthony Eden in Churchill's seat. "He [Churchill] is the father of all these troubles," added Ernie, skipping clean over five years of warm wartime comradeship. "This nation today is paying a terrible price for the stupid, insane action taken at that time...
...television broadcasting, the new tube has fascinating possibilities. Some are military. Perched in the nose of a pilotless bomber, the tube could watch the terrain below, projecting what it sees on a screen in a guiding airplane many miles behind. By watching the screen, an operator who remains in faraway safety could steer the bomber cross-country by remote control...
Then from faraway Boston came a body blow. Nelson Rockefeller, the conciliatory U.S. Assistant Secretary of State in charge of Latin American affairs, stood up at a Pan-American dinner and denounced Argentina as "the black sheep" of the hemi sphere family...