Word: horning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...block of lemonwood. His voice was supplied by Actor Bob Smith, who also played Buffalo Bob, billed as "the great white chief of the Sigafoose Indians." Perhaps even more than they will miss Howdy or Bob, U.S. kids will miss the mute clown, Clarabell, who always sounded a sweet horn to indicate "yes," a sour one for "no" (the part, recently played by Lew Anderson, was originated by Bob Keeshan, who is the enduring star of CBS's Captain Kangaroo). And with them all went a memorable list of supporting figures: Mr. Bluster, the puppet heavy (the children...
Percussive Vaudeville (Harry Breuer and Orchestra; Audio Fidelity). A sentimental treatment of Gay Nineties songs is mixed with Spike Jonesian horn and whistle exclamations. The "separation of sound" here is greater than that between the far ends of a vaudeville pit. and the effect, while startling, ultimately cancels out the melody...
Economist Carroll comes of a pioneering California family: one branch sailed around the Horn, the other crossed the continent by oxcart. At 25, he was both an assistant professor and an assistant dean at Harvard's business school. In World War II the Navy put him in charge of recruiting all officer candidates. At 32, he took on the deanship of Syracuse University's sagging business school. He remade the school, went on to do the same job at the University of North Carolina. In 1948 he was called on to help organize the $3 billion Ford Foundation...
...hour later, a familiar voice filled the room : "This is President Eisenhower speaking." The President's words, spoken into a White House tape recorder months before, had just been broadcast from Goldstone, Calif., and had carried clearly across 2,500 miles of space to Holmdel's horn-shaped antenna. It was a major space-age breakthrough. After one earlier failure, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration had successfully launched an Echo satellite, a huge, metal ized balloon capable of reflecting radio messages from earth. The U.S. thus opened the door to a new system of inter continental...
...detachment was in Leopoldville within 24 hours. From Sweden, Ireland, Liberia and the Mali Federation, he got promises of enough more troops to swell the U.N. force to 12,000 men by the end of the month. From Jerusalem, Hammarskjold dispatched lean-jawed Swedish Major General Carl Carlsson von Horn, 47, U.N. Truce Enforcement Chief along the Arab-Israeli borders, to take com mand in the Congo. To meet an impending public-health disaster created by the departure of all the Belgian doctors, Hammarskjold called on the World Health Organization and the International Red Cross to "stage a crash operation...