Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rise of rock 'n' roll. Said Veteran Librettist Harbach, 83: "The greatest melodies of the past would never have had a chance to reach the public if they were written now instead of then. Would Smoke Gets in Your Eyes be allowed by broadcasters to be heard instead of Be-Bop-a-Lula? Could Indian Love Call penetrate the air waves which are flooded with Houn...
...golden rule may not apply in outer space. The International Astronautical Congress, which received the Pope's blessing at its meeting in Rome last week, heard Washington Lawyer Andrew G. Haley describe the basis of what he called "metalaw" (a coinage modeled on metaphysics). Doing unto others as we would they do unto us, said Haley, may not work with other "forms of existence." The spacemen of tomorrow may encounter "sapient beings different in kind," which may require that we "do unto others as they would have done unto them. We must treat them as they desire...
Other researchers have never confirmed Dr. Coca's results, and U.S. medical men generally dismiss his theory. But the world's allergists in Florence were impressed. Nonsmokers felt a quickening of their own pulses when they heard that one of the commonest causes of idioblapsis is tobacco, with one patient's pulse reported jumping from a rate of 46 to 94 within three minutes of lighting a cigarette. Still more provocative was the case of a man whose pulse went from 68 to 104 after he merely held a cold, empty pipe in his mouth...
Well Regimented. Last month the "smug, righteous" day people, as Shepherd calls them, closed ranks: WOR declared Shepherd "noncommercial" and sacked him, thus setting off a clangor of protest heard halfway across the land. Next day the chain gave him a week's reprieve. Then Shepherd tried a hard-sell on the first commercial product that popped into mind, Sweetheart Soap (which had never been a WOR sponsor). He was abruptly cut off the air and fired again. Announced WOR: "We cannot permit such poor judgment to continue uncontrolled." Just as abruptly, WOR ate its words. Sweetheart Soap rewarded...
...foods." When the guide meekly suggested that beer actually was 90% water, Norwood obviously saw this only as "a trick of Satan to delude the public." In the noisy bottling house, as the cans and bottles rattled and banged through a maze of conveyor belts, a Baptist voice was heard above the din: "This canning process shows the genius of man to produce a product, and the cleverness of Satan to deceive our hearts and minds...