Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cilindrero plays Las Golondrinas at the sendoff. He performs at dances for those who cannot afford to hire mariachis or fancy bands. When at midafternoon he shuffles into the big patio of a working-class tenement, children shriek, dogs bark, chickens scurry around, and women drop their housework to listen to his loud, lively songs. Then coins drop from some of the windows, and his partner scrambles for the centavos. Late in the day, dusty and tired, he finds his way to a corner cantina. "Do we make a deal?" he asks the barkeeper. "Why not?" says the barkeep...
Milton Eisenhower got off to a flying start on his five-week swing around South America as the President's personal emissary and factfinder. Despite a rugged schedule of protocol visits and wreath-layings, he managed to meet and listen attentively to scores of political and business leaders. In Venezuela, where everybody from President Marcos Perez Jimenez down told him that they hoped Congress would not cripple their $2.5 billion oil industry by restricting petroleum imports, he also managed to get away for a jeepback tour of the vast eastern ore fields from which Bethlehem and U.S. Steel hope...
Every Sunday in New Orleans, a crowd of jazz fans thread their way into a Bourbon Street gin mill called The Paddock. The lucky ones find seats close up at the bar, where the music is loudest, and with a deference equaling that of longhair purists, listen to an eight-piece band playing oldtime, home-town jazz. The leader of the band is a smiling, coal-black trumpet player named Oscar ("Papa") Celestin, 69 (or maybe 74), who has been playing the same kind of straight, hard jazz for more than 50 years...
...referring to the letters through which many of you talk back to TIME, and in which you clearly exercise the right to do your own thinking. The answers to your letters, written by members of TIME'S Letters department, make it evident, I hope, that TIME does listen hard to what you have to say. Every week, the Letters department distributes, to the staff, a mimeographed summary of the mail that reaches us, called the TIME Letters Report. Because the Letters section in the magazine has space for only a few of the thousands of letters you send...
...Moose" Ross claimed that he learned to swim by reading an instruction manual, but he broke 72 world records, won both the 400 and the 1,500-meter Olympic races at Antwerp in 1920. Hired by a Chicago radio station in 1931, Ross attracted over a million Midwestern listen ers with his early morning "400 Hour" of classical music and light chatter...