Word: page
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...firm stand, whatever the consequences, and ordinary Americans were indeed preparing for any eventuality. After years of being treated with tolerant amusement, Civil Defense officials suddenly found themselves in demand. When the supply of booklets on civil defense ran out in Atlanta, the Constitution published a full page of excerpts. In Boston, Civil Defense Director Charles Sweeney-who as a World War II pilot dropped the A-bomb on Nagasaki-estimated inquiries were "up 1,000%." A Los Angeles bombshelter builder reported: "Now we have to screen the moderately serious inquiries from the damned serious inquiries...
...been so honored in death by Moscow, both more than 30 years ago: Author John Reed and Labor Organizer Big Bill Haywood. From the Communist point of view, William Foster was far and away the most deserving: for years the Soviet Encyclopedia has accorded Foster nearly a full page. Foster scrabbled up from the Irish slums of Taunton, Mass., to become chairman of the U.S. Communist Party from 1932 to 1957. Three times he ran for U.S. President on the Communist Party ticket. Early this year, in failing health, he flew off to Moscow to die. During the long afternoon...
...record of 107 homers set by Ruth (60) and Gehrig (47) back in 1927. The pitching staff was solid: Whitey Ford was safely on the winning side of his first 20-game season, and Veteran Screwballer Luis Arroyo, 34, has become the finest Yankee relief pitcher since "Fireman Joe" Page. The infield was the tightest in baseball, and the Yanks led the league in just about everything that counted: runs, home runs and double plays...
...LIKE NO MAGAZINE YOU HAVE EVER READ BEFORE, enthused the Saturday Evening Post in full-page ads introducing the face lifting that was prescribed to cure its ten-year slump in ad linage. Most readers are not likely to be so certain: the new magazine reads like the old Post. The fiction is the same tug-at-the-heartstrings stuff. Nonfiction will be "weeks, months, even years ahead of press coverage," says the Post; yet the new issue explores mainly old press favorites: ex-Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, Broadway Producer David Merrick, the "young widow." the "new" Japan. Only...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). William Faulkner's The Old Man, with Geraldine Page and Sterling Hayden. Repeat...