Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newspapers and broadcasting stations received hundreds of letters and phone calls objecting to the new influx of immigrants. Said Miami Mayor Robert King High: "No one community can assimilate any great number of people who come here with limitations of speech and no money." Governor Haydon Burns warned of possible "economic chaos." Dade County School Superintendent Joe Hall ordered that all newly arrived Cuban children be excluded from classrooms until the Federal Government provides more funds for their education...
...learned yesterday that Howard Whitmore Jr. '29, commissioner of the MDC, has agreed to place three large searchlights in the Charles River area between the Larz-Anderson Bridge and the Weeks Bridge. The MDC will also install an emergency phone near Memorial Drive so that Harvard patrolmen can call the MDC immediately in case of further trouble...
...engined jet to nine U.S. cities to whoop up support for the Halloween "trick-or-treat for UNICEF" campaign. The idea was for the kids to go out and collect nickels and climes for the agency, the United Nations Children's Fund. At Philadelphia, Danny had an urgent phone call from UNICEF's executive director, Henry Labouisse, 61, and when he got to Washington, Danny told the waiting schoolchildren about a very large treat indeed. UNICEF had just been named winner of the $57,000 Nobel Peace Prize for its help to needy children throughout the world...
Lights, however, should be the most popular item to get Sonuswitching, the company figures. Travelers will be able to phone and turn the lights on at night to fool prowlers, then turn them off later on. And then, of course, there is always the predatory bachelor anxious for scientific help. With Sonuswitch, he never has to leave the couch. When he wants to turn off the light, all he has to do is clap his hands. There is still a handy riposte available for a quick-witted prey, however. She can slap him hard, twice...
...easy to see why she fascinates a daring young psychiatrist (John Cullum) who wants to frogleap Freud into the mental future. After all, she knows his phone is ringing before it rings, and she can grow plants faster than Jack's beanstalk by singing nicely to them. She sings nicely to the audience, too, especially in Burton Lane's best song, What Did I Have That I Don't Have?, a wistful identity query in which Daisy wonders why the good doctor dotes on her 18th century self. In other numbers, Lane's score improves Lerner...