Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phoned her constantly, speaking in French if a member of his staff was in the room. They often met secretly in Washington's Rock Creek Park. Lucy would climb into the back of the big, seven-passenger limousine with the President, and they would drive slowly for an hour along the winding roads...
...choice was curiously appropriate. Touring a show of experimental art in 1962, Khrushchev was startled by what he saw. He likened it to "painting done by an ass with its tail." Neizvestny was the most prominent artist represented, and he argued forcefully against Khrushchev for an hour. Though the party chief did not change his views on art, he was impressed by Neizvestny's courageous defense and, as he left, told the artist: "You are the kind of man I like." Later, after his forced retirement, Khrushchev expressed regret for having argued with Neizvestny...
Died. Joseph Anthony Beirne, 63, president of the 500,000-member Communications Workers of America from its founding in 1947 until last June; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. When he was 18, Beirne (pronounced Burn) went to work as a telephone repairman earning 320 an hour; in 1937 he became president of a local affiliate of the National Federation of Telephone Workers; six years later he headed the N.F.T.W., and helped transform it into the C.W.A...
Television news directors have a persistent nightmare: an unexpected event breaks while the news show is on the air. Even if a film-camera crew can be rushed to the scene, developed and edited film of the story is still more than an hour away. Setting up a conventional live camera and all its lumbering accessories is also slow business. The crash of two elevated trains on Chicago's South Side recently was a perfect example of what directors fear. It occurred shortly after 6 p.m. during the local stations' evening news programs. Yet WBBM...
...live pictures of the life-and-death holocaust were then fed to other L.A. stations and to the rest of the nation. WNBC-TV in New York City has taken a minicamera into an operating room to broadcast live snippets of a kidney transplant during its two-hour evening news program...