Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other side of the Heidi story [Nov. 29]: Small town, two channels, football on both of them. Rotten weather, ten children, nine of them running, leaping, screaming and fighting. Baby can't walk, thank God. Father in absolute coma, doesn't see, hear anything but football game. Mother a pitiful, broken creature, swilling beer (small town, no LSD available) making dinner; will they ever stop, grow up, sit down? Finally, 6:55. Mother sits down with Sunday papers. Children settle down. Cut to Heidi, end of game on television. Father goes completely berserk. Tough, there are eleven...
...acting on a Scandinavian complaint that the Athens regime had unjustly suspended constitutional rights in Greece and was permitting the torture of prisoners, the Human Rights Commission of the Council of Europe, an 18-nation organization created to foster social and economic progress, called a special closed session to hear testimony. The Greek government complied by sending several heavily guarded ex-prisoners to the hearings in Strasbourg -but only after ordering them to deny all allegations of torture...
...precise purpose of the gathering remained obscure throughout--the directors of the conference never went beyond the phrase "exchanging ideas." At a news conference early in the proceedings there was some talk of representatives of the Nixon administration coming to hear the ideas exchanged, but they never showed up. And Carl M. Kaysen, co-chairman of the seminar, specifically rejected the notion that any policy statements could come of an international seminar of that kind...
...usual, it's not the people involved, but The System that is at fault. It may be getting a bit tire-some to hear it, but boredom doesn't change matters any. The international monetary system has weathered--just barely--three major crises in the past year, and the prospects for fundamental reform seem scarcely brighter now than they were 12 months...
...used to being loved by the viewing public -- though the only viewers who probably even know he exists are the few who stay tuned to Huntley-Brinkley after the news is over to hear the snatch of Beethoven as the credits roll up the screen. Huntley and Brinkley have always been those two congenial fellows with the wry wit who make digestion a little bit easier every night after dinner. They became something quite different during the Democratic convention. Their public turned on them, criticized them, and Northshield wonders...