Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everyone in the office of Under Secretary of State Christian Herter right after his special midafternoon news conference. And that event, as the tumult mounted, was moved from Humphrey's office to the Senate Armed Services Committee room to accommodate the 100 newsmen who were on hand to hear much the same material that Humphrey had already disclosed to reporters in Europe (TIME...
Radio listeners, both professional and ham, sometimes hear signals that sound as if they came from a satellite. When they check, they find that no satellite was near them. Such signals need not originate in an unannounced Russian satellite or spaceship departing for Mars. According to Owen Garriott of Stanford University, they may come from a well-known satellite that is passing over an area on the other side of the earth, exactly opposite the listener's antenna...
...country's history when the forces of intelligent conservatism have been in greater danger of obliteration." So said Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield in the major speech before the National Association of Manufacturers' 63rd annual congress. In the kind of rousing talk that N.A.M. members like to hear, Summerfield warned that "America today teeters on the precipice of a labor-bossed Congress." was sure that President Eisenhower will propose legislation to protect workers "from exploitation by unscrupulous and corrupt union bosses." Unless antitrust law principles are applied to the "labor-boss monopoly" and businessmen become active in politics...
Having been deprived this year of the traditional services of Christmas music by the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society in Memorial Church, the faithful trooped over to Sanders last Friday evening to hear the same forces, joined by the Bach Society Orchestra, offer season's greetings to the Cambridge community. Despite the changed locale and program, the atmosphere, which makes these concerts an annual success, was unchanged; and if the performances were not classically ideal, the large audience seemed, nevertheless, very well satisfied...
...cosmic questions, Mr. Capote plays the famous writer's familiar con-game. To hear the successful writer tell it, they've never heard of Jung or symbols or aesthetic theories, and they profess an admirable ignorance when confronted with such things. "I am merely trying to tell a story in the best way I can," said Capote. "Writers don't think consciously about symbols. I doubt whether Kafka ever thought about the symbolic significances of his stories. He was just trying to tell a story...