Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appreciative chuckle over your story on Senator Kennedy [who met with 51 Methodist bishops and answered questions on his Roman Catholicism-April 27]. But regret that this feature of a semiannual meeting of the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church was described as an "odd inquisition." Panel quizzes (Meet the Press, Face the Nation, et al.) regularly bring out sharper interrogation via TV networks. How many show producers courteously furnish the "quizzed" with an advance list of questions? Bishop Oxnam's innovation sounds like an intelligent and highly effective method of gaining firsthand information on matters of real...
Veterans' benefits and interest on the public debt are both a delayed cost of war and should be considered together. Many of us will refuse to get excited about veterans' benefits until they exceed the yearly interest charges. We will meet the problems of 1985 in that year and not in 1959. It is fortunate that pension legislation rests with Congress and not with TIME or the Administration...
...that Fidel Castro has talked to Vice President Nixon, Secretary of State Herter, 18 Congressmen, has charmed the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and has been interviewed on NBC's Meet the Press [May 4], he has accomplished exactly what he set out to do: get U.S. Government approval and the approval of the people of the U.S. for his coming invasion of Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
...gold White House state dining room, the President of the U.S. moved the U.S.'s welcome of Sir Winston Churchill to a high point. Said President Eisenhower, as he raised a champagne goblet in a toast to Queen Elizabeth: "Here is a man who makes on all who meet him an impression that is unforgettable. Now, for me, I met him in this house-and this was something for a newly commissioned brigadier. In the same room that he is now occupying is where...
...Meet McGraw (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The background music may not win any awards, and neither will McGraw, but his reruns still prove him to be one of the more efficient, amiable private eyes...