Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President stirred hearts and minds with an eloquent plea that the wonders of atomic science be "not dedicated to man's death but consecrated to his life.'' This time he had an even more urgent task: to set forth, for the world to hear and heed, U.S. policy toward the brawling, broiling Middle East...
...faithful to prayer from a minaret, with words as incendiary as a skyful of fire bombs. Nasser's propagandists were sure that they had the edge. Mused one contentedly: "Our radio is so successful because any Arab anywhere in the Arab world can simply turn the knob and hear the echo of thoughts that fill his own heart...
...opener for the station's five-day-a-week educational curtain raiser is a bilingual newscast by Puerto Rican Newsman Jose Roman. Then Cuban-born, 31-year-old Teacher Clara Barbeito uses household objects and pictures to put across the day's vocabulary list. Listeners hear the words again when Roman closes class with a short, slowly spoken talk in English on how to get jobs in New York, or how to take advantage of the city's rent-control laws, or where to go for an inexpensive outing. Other Ingles encouragers: clips from English training films...
...individual thus described: charming, highly gifted French Composer-Conductor-Pianist Pierre Boulez, 33. The name is virtually unknown in the U.S., but Americans are sure to hear more of both him and his music, although he makes satanic demands on both listener and performer...
...hear the growls of the economic bears, the U.S., having just turned the recession around, now stands tottering on the brink of something disastrous called "inflation." But does it? The U.S. could indeed have serious inflation if fiscal irresponsibility at Government levels piled up national debts heavier than the economy can absorb. It might also have inflation if the wage spiral got out of hand, or if capacity to produce fell so far short of demand that prices suddenly shot up by 10% or 20%. It will not have "inflation" by any sensible definition of the word so long...