Word: gabrielic
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...audience with variety shows, brought over big American stars (Liberace, Pat Boone) and shows (Cheyenne and Wyatt Earp), went in for such serious topics as abortion and the U.S. recession, only last week featured Sir Laurence Olivier in his first TV play, a performance of Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman. Collins' forward-looking programing has put five of ATV's shows among England...
...border police that this order was to be strictly enforced, that any villager found abroad after the curfew hour was to be shot. In midafternoon Major Malinki passed the order along to his company commanders, adding, "May Allah have mercy on their souls." On the stroke of 5, Lieut. Gabriel Dehan deployed his constables in three groups around the Arab village of Kfar Kassim. In the next hours his cops shot and killed 43 men, women and children as they cycled and trudged homeward, unaware of the sudden curfew order, from afternoon visits across the fields and from work...
Beamed Presidential Economic Adviser Gabriel Hauge: "No doubt about it. That's big news." The big news was a report from the Commerce Department that industry's expenditures for plant and equipment apparently stopped declining in the third quarter, will start climbing in the fourth quarter. The Department polled industry, found capital outlays are expected to be at the same annual rate in the third quarter as in the second, $30.3 billion, seasonally adjusted. Spend ing is expected to rise in the fourth quarter to $31 billion, some three to six months before forecasters had expected the turnabout...
...started all the current whoopee in hoops are Toymakers Arthur Melin and Richard Knerr, 33-year-old owners of the Wham-O Manufacturing Co. of San Gabriel. Calif. Last March, while attending a New York toy fair, they got a tip from an acquaintance on a wooden hoop popular in Australia. Melin and Knerr turned out a score of wooden hoops, did not like them, started experimenting in plastics. In May they made some 3-ft. hoops out of brightly colored polyethylene tubing. Melin field-tested them on some neighborhood children-and a national fad started. From children...
...Baritone Warfield, in towns whose saloon signs and bat-winged doors reminded him of "something out of a western movie," by request scheduled programs usually reserved for "highbrow cities like New York." In Armidale (pop. 11,000), he struck up a debate with a brawny university football player. Subject: Gabriel Fauré's musical setting of Paul Verlaine's poem La Bonne Chanson...