Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your story on the Vanderbilt symposium [April 21] you state: "Heard says that unless he gets a 'substantial' vote of confidence, he will quit." To correct the record, I have not said this or anything similar publicly or privately...
ALEXANDER HEARD Chancellor Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tenn...
When he began his campaign for Governor, few Nebraskans outside his home town of Wausa (pop. 725) had ever heard of Republican Norbert Tiemann. To overcome that disadvantage, Nobby" Tiemann, 42, son of a Lutheran minister, dotted the state with billboards and filled the airwaves with spot commercials plugging the slogan: TIEMANN, Nebraska's New Way to Spell Governor." What the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), trim, small-town banker was actually telling the voters was that the time had come to find a new way to spell...
Barricade. In Athens' Kolonaki district, three soldiers and a captain called at 2 a.m. upon Premier Panayotis Kanellopoulos, who had heard of trouble and barricaded his door. The officer explained that they had come to protect him. "I need no protection," cried Kanellopoulos. "I am the Premier of Greece." The soldiers broke down the door. "Why don't you kill me here?" the Premier asked. The soldiers hustled him swiftly into an army truck and drove him off to a detention center...
...newsmen have reported. Instead, it has investigated the journalists themselves-their private habits as well as their professional performances. The objective is obviously harassment. "In my 35 years as a newspaperman," says Gene Robb, publisher of both the morning Times-Union and the afternoon Knickerbocker News, "I have never heard of a comparable situation...