Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business," said Steve Allen, sticking to the script as he peered into the Havana sky last week. The sky was overcast and black, and a chilly wind sent wavelets across the swimming pool at the Havana Riviera Hotel, where NBC was beaming its first major live production over the horizon from Cuba...
Congressman Alger's view, of the horizon may have been unduly clouded, but few of his colleagues who will move up to Capitol Hill for the opening of Congress next week were much more optimistic about the prospects. They are largely the same men who marched down the Hill only four months ago, but they are coming back to a different world. Inflation has changed to recession; the unassailable Eisenhower is under heavy assault; big talk of economy has changed to big talk of defense spending; and the air of smug superiority has yielded to the very real threat...
...County Waterfowl Refuge. But was Happy actually hunting? Not a bit of it. Rather, as the story came to be told, he was just sort of standing around bird-watching with Wildlife Commissioner Earl Wallace and a couple of refuge employees. Then suddenly a crippled goose lurched across the horizon, and Happy, with nothing but euthanasian motives, blazed away. He and his companions were promptly collared for hunting afterhours by Game Warden Kendall Thomas, who had heard some after-hours goose and duck calls and was watching through binoculars...
...winter sun still sulked below the northern horizon, but a few rays of light filtered across the Antarctic wastes. The sculptured sea of snow swept on forever. The date: Sept. 18, 1957. The temperature : -102.1 °F., the lowest official reading ever made on the face of the earth...
...choir. Gradually the critics became disenchanted. Richter, they felt, had slipped into sentimentality; worse, he seemed to be reaching too far out for effects and succeeding only in distorting the master. After one disastrous concert, when he tried to branch out to Bruckner, the critics spoke of "limited musical horizon," "small technical capacities." Furious, Karl Richter tried to keep the press from his next concert...