Word: makeshifts
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...beefed up their newscasts, but still were without the legmen to give listeners more than fragmentary local news coverage. An outdoor advertising company teamed with WBZ-TV and WNAC-TV to spread an outsize Page One across two Boston Common billboards twice daily. Some of the most enterprising makeshift newspapers were put out for employees by Boston insurance companies. American Mutual Liability Insurance published a multilith bulletin under the slogan: ALL THE NEWS...
...energy to go with his size and ambition. Ax on shoulder, he went into the woods, felled and milled timber, and built with his own hands a house at the foot of the mountain and a 7Oo-ft. ladder up its side. For two years, until he rigged a makeshift cable hoist and then built a road to the top, he lugged lumber and equipment up the mountain, piece by piece, on his back. He made a model and set out to carve out of the rock mountain the figure of Crazy Horse mounted on a plunging steed...
Even this makeshift modus operandi had to be found between the lines. In public, Nasser insisted to a group of visiting U.S. editors that both the Suez and Aqaba waterways are in Egyptian territory. The U.S., he said, "is aiming to starve us out, while the Soviet Union is aiming to help us'' with shipments of wheat. "We like to be friendly to the U.S.," but "we will not surrender to American pressure...
...engineers who met in Manhattan last week at the annual convention of the Institute of Radio Engineers, 800 expensive exhibits had been carefully set up. But the convention's most popular exhibition-before which engineers daily stood two or three deep-was a makeshift affair; it was a 15-ft. display of hundreds of white cards tacked on a wall beneath the sign "Job Opportunities...
Extra Guests. Within 24 hours, the 80° weather worked its therapy. Queasy correspondents aboard the destroyers gathered in makeshift press rooms twice daily to hear Press Secretary Jim Hagerty relay by radio-telephone optimistic reports from Canberra. White House Physician Howard Snyder found the President coughing only occasionally. His head cold was easing, his inflamed left ear cleared. So much better was Ike feeling that he stripped off his jacket, lazily drove golf-balls from a coco mat into a canvas shield stretched down the starboard side of Canberra's open deck while the ship lolled nearly dead...