Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea of decentralizing government had been broached by President Eisenhower in a speech last month to the 49th annual conference of governors. Many of the governors yawned and thought they would hear no more of it. But Ike put his best team to work in Washington, peppered the governors' committee with plans and suggestions aimed at reaching a workable if not dramatic program of action. Last week Anderson & Co. were ready with facts and figures, and Anderson quickly ticked off six simple obligations that the U.S. is willing to turn over to the states next year...
...Sponsored jointly by the University of Houston and the Houston school system, it has put on 56 telecourses, and 9,000 people have signed up for them. Aside from these, there are hours each week of concerts, lectures and forums. Says one KUHT official: "We still hear 'Who will watch ETV when I Love Lucy is on?' More people watched a forum on education on KUHT one Monday night than could have been crowded into all the public-school auditoriums in Houston. And they could have seen Robert Montgomery or Lawrence Welk instead...
Click. Click. Click. Off North Carolina, Worthington was manning an echo-sounding receiver on a regular project when he heard a loud hammering. "Cut out the racket," he yelled. "I can't hear a damn thing." After everyone on board lad indignantly denied hammering, a herd of six sperm whales slowly broke water near...
...twin beds stirred slightly to the slushy beat of Mantovani and Softly as in a Morning Sunrise. The husband got up first to put on the coffee and slip a record on the hifi. As his wife relaxed for a few minutes more, planning her day, she could just hear the treacly organ notes of Music for Meditation dripping from the living-room Bozak...
...Aboard the S.S. Caliban, bound out of Liverpool for Rangoon, things get worse. The lascar stewards curse foully-yet only Pinfold seems to hear. Something, he thinks, is wrong with the ship's ventilating gear; by some acoustic or electrical freak, he hears conversations, snatches of music, and a dog snuffling in the night. Then he somehow listens to an obscene lecture on sex by some evangelical clergyman (though none appears on the passenger list). New voices make themselves heard. They become menacing and are well-informed on Pinfold's private affairs...