Word: page
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faces the charge of censorship. In our democratic country, which depends so much on an informed public opinion, all channels of communication must be kept open." Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas J. Dodd led a congressional investigation of the Struelens case. Last week his committee released a 568-page report which concluded that Struelens' treatment "constituted a glaring abuse of the visa power and a performance un worthy of the government of a great nation dedicated to the principles of free dom and justice...
...recital halls, young musicians, faceless behind their cellos, remained nameless, too, with no reviews to account for their work. Even debuts at the Metropolitan Opera or at Carnegie Hall seemed curiously hollow events. Years from now, the performers may well expect cold, unbelieving glances when they explain the empty page in their scrapbooks by saying that there was a newspaper strike that all-important night...
There is a page in the N.F.L. record book entitled simply "Records Held by Don Hutson.'' Among them: most touchdown passes caught (101). most yards gained catching passes (5,010), most touchdowns scored...
...aphorism forces the eye off the page and into the contemplative middle distance; it takes a moment's time to decide whether the author has skewered a truth or merely shaken it up. The collectors have selected from the great aphorists such as G. K. Chesterton and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, but also from such little-known men of perception as Claude Bernard and the late Cesare Pavese...
...weeks before the election, the New York Herald Tribune ran a front page news feature questioning such discrepancies. The article also mentioned a million dollar figure which it implied might be a realistic estimate of Kennedy's expenses. Most of the Tribune article was based on estimates only, but it provided some very good leads. Yet none of the Boston papers picked the story up, even though the Globe is part of the Herald Tribune wire service...