Word: hearings
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...barring, of course, assassination or a coup by his military juniors. He won the term in a plebiscite that gave voters a choice of him or nothing. So cynically rigged was the election that two hours after the polls closed, Interior Minister Laureano Vallenilla Lanz summoned foreign newsmen to hear the results. Just as a small television receiver in the corner of his office beamed the opening of the first ballot box, the minister, his .38-cal. revolver prominently displayed on his desk, said that the citizens had voted for Pérez Jiménez in overwhelming numbers...
...Penfield touched part of the left temporal lobe. She began to recall giving birth more than 20 years earlier. When the electrode was applied to the cut surface in the forward part of the temporal lobe during an operation on a 26-year-old secretary, she suddenly remarked: "I hear music." Minutes later, without her knowledge, the electrode was reapplied to the same spot. "I hear music again," she said. She hummed the tune in time with the orchestra that she heard. Later she wrote: "It is not one of my favorite songs, so I don't know...
...where'er I will I hear a sky-born music still...
...calm and cloistered air of 19th century New England, the Sage of Concord tuned his inner ear to the faint, sweet sounds that issued from his Transcendental trees and rocks. If he could hear sky-born music wherever he went, his friends and neighbors were less fortunate; they had to depend on the uncertain efforts of a handful of local groups, supplemented by occasional trips to Boston. In null century Concord, New Englanders do not find themselves so hampered-and Emerson would scarcely be left in peace to do his ethereal listening. Today's American, let him go where...
Compromise. This week the moose-v.-man issue gets even hotter as the Interior Department opens public hearings in Washington to hear the objections to its new leasing rules. Chances are that the oilmen and conservationists will work out a compromise because there is believed to be just too much oil in Kenai to let it lie there. The Fish and Wildlife Service will demand guarantees that the oilmen protect the moose by routing their roads around rather than through the moose land, by keeping oil from wells from polluting the marshes. Oilmen are expected to accept these conditions...