Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...symbolically left open and used a narrow, hourglass-shaped stand. He wore no makeup; despite the bright lights for the television cameras, he did not perspire. He seemed relaxed and self-assured-in part perhaps because he had carefully gone over the issues with five key aides for two hours on Tuesday and for another hour the morning of the press conference. Still, he and his staff had not anticipated fully one-third of the reporters' questions...
Others are using expensive but reliable courier services, paying as much as $8 to ensure delivery within 24 hours of a letter from Milan to Palermo. Northern Italians routinely drive an hour or more to mail letters in Switzerland...
Louisville's WHAS-TV puts on one-minute recorded statements from local spokesmen for all sorts of views 15 times a week. WGBH-TV, the public broadcast station in Boston, turns over a half-hour every day to nonprofit and other community groups to use as they please; its seven-month-old program. Catch 44, is booked solidly three months in advance. Even the networks have begun loosening up their nightly news formats. NBC'S anchor man John Chancellor last spring introduced "Editor's Notebook," an occasional entry designed, as he puts it, for "catching...
...camera and tape equipment. Even so, "it takes a little practice to get the hang of using the camera," notes Joe Collins of Orlando, Fla.'s Orange Cablevision. But stations encourage novices to air their efforts. Thus Orlando has recently seen one Warholesque half-hour that consisted of a man cutting down a tree, and another that zeroed (or zigzagged) in on the ducks around Lake Eola...
...nuclear holocaust with a "doomsday clock" on its cover. Two years ago, after the U.S. and U.S.S.R. signed their first nuclear arms limitation pact, the Bulletin's editors set back the clock to twelve minutes to midnight-the farthest it has ever been from that apocalyptic hour. Now the editors are no longer so optimistic. In the September issue, the clock's hands will be pushed forward to nine minutes before midnight. The editors cite a number of reasons for their new pessimism: the lack of a further arms agreement between the superpowers; the continued spread of nuclear...