Word: likelies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prison mates to go along. Then he convinced the warden. Using an empty cell as an office, the prisoners wrote to stores and charities in town explaining that they wanted to invite as many of Salisbury's European orphans and needy children as possible: ''We would like to be their parents for one day." Soon, the gifts began to arrive, and the prisoners, snatching every free moment from compulsory chores and sometimes staying up until 3 a.m., went to work...
Neutralist Nkrumah, with Partner Sékou Touré in neighboring Guinea, would like to build an "independent" union movement in Africa and cut labor ties with the free world's International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, but many suspect this merely conceals an inclination to affiliate with a Communist-backed rival, the World Federation of Trade Unions. Mboya's union headquarters in Nairobi was built with $35,000 contributed by U.S. unions, and Mboya himself is a staunch supporter of I.C.F.T.U. as well as chairman of its union organization in East, Central and Southern Africa...
Controlling their own show, Network Programing Director Eugene Hallman, 40, and TV Program Director Douglas Nixon, 44, aim for a magazine-like mixture of fiction, fact and fun. A typical evening's fare last week offered song (Perry Como Show) and adventure (R.C.M.P., a realistic serial on the Mounties, which cartoonists are fond of lampooning), but gave equal time to Live a Borrowed Life, a sprightly historical quiz, and Explorations, a well-filmed exposition of the odd migration habits of animals, birds and fish...
...refer particularly to the mad race to provide the most of everything quantitative -more regional editions, more local editions, more split runs, more different and sometimes bizarre ad sizes, more circulation at any cost, and so many flips, flops, folds, inserts and coupons that many a magazine today looks like a convention issue of the gadget and gimmick news...
...mistletoe is poisonous when taken internally. What was remarkable about the story was not the toxicity of mistletoe but the transmission. One of the publicity man's newer gimmicks in his tireless assault on news space is the teleprinter, which delivers handouts to the city desk looking just like copy hot off the A.P. or U.P.I, machine...