Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...correspondents, McCulloch flew to Hawaii with the Premier, who lost $8 at poker during the 13-hour flight. TIME White House Reporter Hugh Sidey and State Department Correspondent Jess Cook arrived from Washington with President Johnson. After covering the conference, McCulloch and Cook were awakened by a dawn phone call informing them that the editors had decided on the Ky cover. The two correspondents interviewed and wrote during the entire trip back to Saigon; Cook then peeled off to accompany Vice President Hubert Humphrey on his Vietnamese tour...
...DuBridge, 60, Caltech. Mild-mannered, soft-spoken and enormously proud of his school, Physicist DuBridge is constantly on the phone as a skilled broker between Caltech's scientific resources and the nation's ever-expanding demands for scientific knowledge. He is an adviser to NASA on manned space flight, a director of National Educational Television and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation...
...crooks concoct an elaborate hoax about being cops, and there is much hokum with rattling of Venetian blinds, fake phone calls, unscrewing of fuses, disguises of voice. But Lee Remick is a sightless Penelope with uncanny perception who carefully unravels in Act II everything that the crooks have carelessly knitted in Act I; it takes a pretty dedicated mystery fan to follow every purl three, drop one, of this crazy pattern. In Act III the mayhem picks up, and a refrigerator becomes the most electrifying actor in the house...
...debate, though touching on Curry's tenure in office, has just as often shifted to the intricacies of back-room political maneuvering. The controversy has become so bitter that at one point or another nearly every phone call, every meeting between two or more councillors seems to have been mentioned...
...Coop had less than two-thirds of the forms on Sept. 11. Secretaries were put on the phone full-time and told to talk to anyone -- professors, department heads, section men -- who knew the reading lists. By Sept. 24 the Coop had ordered texts for only three-quarters of the 825 courses it was expected to supply...