Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commend you for bringing South Africa's apartheid policies before your readers; those policies are a matter of grave international concern. My Subcommittee on Africa has been holding hearings on United States-South African Relations since March. While we heard considerable testimony from a score of expert witnesses, and extended an invitation to American businessmen and financiers, none of the latter seemed to think it advisable to testify, which I regret...
...weeks of investigating the plight of the nation's cities, Abe Ribicoff's Senate subcommittee dwelled mostly on the statistics of the problem, demanding answers and offering aggressive criticism. Last week it was the com mittee's turn to sit back and listen- and what it heard from a parade of witnesses was the chilling flesh-and-blood story of what life can be like in the ghetto slums of large U.S. cities. The Senators got an uncomfortable view of places where people have to hustle for pocket money and a moment's pleasure, where honesty...
...journeyed wide-eyed to London to receive, amid the pop of champagne corks and the glare of TV lights, the largest single win in the soccer-pool history: $947,400 on his bet of 520. "I felt a bit of a shiver come over me," said Harrison, after he heard he had won. In London to collect the money, he looked a little dazed: "I've never been the one for being away from home. I felt badly this morning on the train." Would the fortune bring him happiness? Harrison was pessimistic. "It's too late...
...people," explains Singer-Guitarist Magic Sam. "It's hardship, what you've been through. I love it even though it makes me sad, because that's what I am." Adds retired Harmonica Player Shaky Jake: "Blues are the true story, the truest music I ever heard in my life...
...nothing of simple self-support, is generally conceded to be far beyond the reach of today's intellectual journals. They measure their success on another level-by the quality, if not the quantity, of their audience, by the impact of their ideas on people who may never have heard of them. Judged by these criteria, the Anglo-American monthly Encounter is a success indeed...