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...photographers, radio and television performers, spielsmen and technicians (almost double the number in 1952) will swarm around Chicago's International Amphitheatre employing 400 veteran telegraphers to transmit 600,000 words an hour, sending photo plates whirlybirding from a rooftop heliport, poking television's Cyclopic eye into every nook and cranny of the amphitheatre (see RADIO...
...Indian program falls short of complete state socialism. Nehru has long argued, as Britain's Laborites now do, that socialism is feasible without full nationalization. But Nehru favors controls over private enterprise. "An army," he explained, "does not occupy a country by placing a soldier in every nook and cranny: a gun mounted on a hill enables an army to control surrounding areas effectively...
...nook or cranny of the world stage was too remote or too dusty to escape the stagehands' attention: ¶ The Russian ambassador to Washington dropped into American Red Cross headquarters with a $25,000 contribution to the fund for relief from the recent East Coast floods...
...reduce the almost endless files (24 million cu. ft. of them in 2,000,000 file cabinets -enough to stretch in a single drawer from the Pentagon to the Kremlin). Among the task-force recommendations is a new correspondence style board with authority over letter-perfection in every nook and cranny of the Government. Likeliest candidate for chairman: Mona Sheppard...
Having established Cordon as a villain, Neuberger moved into the second phase, in mid-September, with his own campaign promises. With Maurine driving a rented blue Ford, the Neubergers traveled to every nook and corner of the state, to Philomath, Gold Beach, Madras, Looking glass, Yachats, Yoncalla, Bonanza, Cornucopia, Garibaldi, Grande Ronde, Depot Bay, and even to Sisters and Fossil. Wherever possible they stayed with local citizens, and Dick invariably managed to establish a personal identification with his audiences ("As my close friend Amos Buck of the Butchers' Union knows . . ."). With his sloppy green corduroy jacket and his pleasantly...