Word: gatherings
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...also gather its audience into a cohesive whole with a sureness that is unmatched in any other area of communications. By its coverage of the assassination of President Kennedy and the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, TV news demonstrated its tireless capability and versatility. For millions upon millions, the President's funeral became a heart-moving personal experience. "Television held the country together over the transition period in a unique way and helped preserve the whole democratic process," says onetime FCC Chairman Newton Minow, who exempts TV news from his charge that the medium is a "vast wasteland...
...roughly five hundred to six hundred students, and each would have its own teachers and administrative and guidance personnel. The student population of each unit should have the same distribution of interests, ages, and races. Each unit should be planned around a common area where students and staff can gather for meetings or meet informally. Branch library resources teachers' offices, administrative and guidance facilities, and areas...
...decide the ultimate structure of that freedom is the task of the assemblymen, who will gather on Sept. 26 in the shabby National Cultural Center in downtown Saigon (it will get a fresh coat of paint before then). The biggest question is by what formula the military and civilians can share power in a nation at war-a country in which the military is the only strong, cohesive force...
Surely no man immersed himself more thoroughly in his work. Bing today has no private life, no hobbies, no interest in anything but the Met. To gather strength for each six-day onslaught of problems, he spends all day Sunday in bed, like Lenin lying in state. He is a solitary figure who thinks of himself still as "a guest in this country," and he keeps himself insulated from the rhythms that make other men move. He is Old World to the heart and carries his British citizenship like a shield. As far as Bing is concerned, he could...
Goerner has succeeded, he says, where the U.S. Navy failed. Financed by CBS, the Scripps newspaper chain, the San Mateo (Calif.) Times and the Associated Press, he made four trips to the islands of the western Pacific to gather evidence of evildoing. In 1960, he returned from the Pacific with a bagful of airplane parts dredged out of Saipan harbor. These, he believed, were the remains of Earhart's twin-engined Lockheed Electra.* No such luck; the collection turned out to be parts from a Japanese plane. In 1964, Goerner got a flash of headlines by producing seven pounds...