Word: move
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With 40 television cameras peering into their faces. 900 newsmen watching their every move, the leaders labored under a burden of expectations that was of their own making. Conceived hastily as a dramatic device for restoring Western morale in the face of Sputnik, the meeting had been called before anyone had concluded just what it could be dramatic about. "Unless the NATO summit meeting conference achieves something great, it will be a failure,'' declared West Germany's Trierischer Volksfreund, saying what most chiefs of government recognized. But calculated leakage of exactly what each nation would propose...
...times the size of Texas and 77 times larger than Belgium itself), long lines of natives stood quietly in the dusty streets. Across town, amid the mangoes, palms and cassia trees of the European quarter, far fewer white citizens were similarly lined up. Belgian gradualism was making another cautious move forward, permitting the first elections-for either whites or blacks-to be held in Belgium's fabulously rich (cobalt, uranium, copper, gold) and only colony...
Suspicion: NBC's new series of hour-long melodramas, half on film and half live, usually seems deader than either, but it sat up and began to move last week with The Deadly Game, adapted by James Yaffe from a story by Friedrich Duerren-matt. A sales executive (Gary Merrill) stumbled out of a New England blizzard to find shelter in an old-fashioned mansion where four retired men in dinner jackets almost seemed to be waiting for him. They plied him with food and brandy, and he amiably agreed after dinner to join them in the parlor game...
...function of the committee might be extended. Edward M. Purcell, professor of Physics, said that the suggestion "sounded like a good idea." He added that "it has long been apparent that something like this should be done in general--community action like this seems like a most constructive move...
Fred L. Whipple, professor of Astronomy, agreed with Bruner on the advisability of extending the functions of such a committee beyond a purely scientific aspect and added that the move was "very important for the national welfare. We want to improve the general intellectual climate across the country, and this might be a good start," he said...