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...known that these were the methods of Franco's police, this was the first time that they had been denounced and pilloried in public. Ugly and depressing as it was, the work of court and defense lawyers and the outcome of the case brought a candle's gleam of hope to many in darkened Spain. Said a Vitoria lawyer: "It looks as if justice and human rights might be on their way back to this tormented land...
Busy Sets. The show was conceived and executed in less that 30 days, beginning as a gleam in the eye of Young & Rubicam's Adman Dan Seymour, one-time M.C. of radio & TV's We The People. He sold it first to Oscar Hammerstein, who says: "We thought it was impossible in such a short time, but we took a flyer." Directed and produced by CBS's Ralph Levy, the continuity and casting of the musical numbers was the responsibility of Rodgers and Hammerstein ("But all those complimentary things they said about us, we didn...
Scholarly Commissioner Smyth (the "Smyth Report," 1945), whose service dates from the start of the wartime atom bomb project, has seen atomic energy grow from a gleam in an oscilloscope to the island-sinking hydrogen bomb. At the end of his speech he remarked: "The nations of the world have today the means to destroy each other. They also have, in this same nuclear energy, a new resource which could be used to lift the heavy burdens of hunger and poverty that keep masses of men in bondage to ignorance and fear...
...Israeli Delegate Abba Eban cried out that the verdict against his country was "more vehement and intemperate" than any the Council had ever rendered, even against the Communist aggressors in Korea. But he went down to defeat. Arab Spokesman Charles Malik of Lebanon hailed the censure as "the first gleam of hope in years that the Arabs are not going to be wronged again...
...curving line of carefully placed black panels. Another sets up a stepladder at runway's end, climbs to the top (where he is almost as high as if he were in the cockpit of a landing plane) and counts the runway lights and markers that gleam through the weather. What each man sees is one more measure of visibility on the field. Automatic instruments keep a continuous record of wind, temperature and fog density...