Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only outcry we have heard this time about the dastardly action of the committee has come from Dave Beck. Mr. Beck has the right to avoid incriminating himself by his own testimony just as do those asked about subversive activities. We would oppose, as we have opposed in the past, any effort to weaken that right. But Mr. Beck does not have a good reputation guaranteed by the Constitution. That is something a man has to guard for himself...
...last word has not been heard from the Algerian revolution committee, which numbers 34 members, but lacks anyone with the vision or the experience of Bourguiba or the Sultan. Undaunted, Bourguiba returned home from Morocco proclaiming: "We will have something to show in a few weeks, I hope. It's a matter of breaking down the wall of distrust...
...Arthur Godfrey and Ed Sullivan-the slobs who like to be patronized by the kindly big shot." Douglas' corrected version: "What I said was, there will always be an audience for slobs like Arthur Godfrey." On a quick visit to Rome, TV Impresario Sullivan, according to a CBSpokesman, heard the original version and got "very, very mad." Just blown in from an African safari, Impresario Godfrey commented through a frozen smile: "My dear friend Paul better come to a little. He owes a great deal to people, just as I do." Meanwhile, Manhattan's Huckster Row was frothing...
...nation's dispirited home builders, whose forecasts for 1957 have slipped steadily lower, last week heard the first good news to come out of Washington in a long, hard winter. With predictions for as few as 800,000 home starts this year, v. 1,100,000 in 1956, the Administration moved to pep up the industry in an area where it needs help. The Administration...
...which had reluctantly boosted production a month ago, acted on reports of a surplus in U.S. crude that could cut domestic prices all down the line. In addition to an estimate from the Bureau of Mines that daily U.S. demand for April will decrease 425,000 bbl., the commission heard testimony from major refiners that oil lifters (shippers in the emergency oil lift) cannot find European takers for some crude, are even canceling orders...