Word: firming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only on formal votes of censure, on bills or on declarations made by the government. In the guise of laying down new procedural rules, Deputies sought to revive Tunisification. In the most brilliant speech of his career, Premier Michel Debre, the man most responsible for the new constitution, stood firm against this challenge. Freely admitting that as a Senator during the Fourth Republic, he had himself been "a master of the art" of Tunisification, he added: "Yet I was wrong." He boldly pitched his argument to the widespread French anxiety, rarely expressed publicly, about what happens after President de Gaulle...
Bailey, won't you please come home?" These days, any enterprising traveler in the Far East can hear the answer-a firm no-from Bill Bailey himself...
...made tapes of D.J.s interviewing celebrities and gave them to the jocks to play on the air at home. There were free bus trips, promised airborne junkets to Mexico. Squads of local beach girls in Bikinis were relieved by company-strength detachments flown in from New York. A Texas firm gave away eight pairs of sunglasses with built-in transistor radios (proud flacks claimed they cost $5,000 apiece...
Annual Dew. An RCA man estimated that his firm spends up to $300,000 a year on various methods of forming friendships with disk jockeys, gave an example of the effectiveness of such promotion: when a 19-year-old named Neil Sedaka cut The Diary, RCA spent $50,000 on "the full treatment," and four weeks later the D.J.s pushed the disk into...
Though his papers-particularly Die Welt-have often tempered their pro-Western stands by urging a more conciliatory approach to Russia, Springer's empire has gradually swung toward a firm, unified support of the West's stand on Berlin during the past six months. Says Publisher Springer: "I believe in Germany, a Germany with Berlin as its capital. But not only do I believe in Germany -I want this Germany. And that's why I'm building now in Berlin...