Word: quarter-hour
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...came as a complete surprise, but the members of the family said yes, they could arrange to make it all right. On the appointed day, the widowed mother, her two sons, her daughter and her son-in-law were shown into the office of their host. For the next quarter-hour, President Ford did what he could to apologize to the family of Frank Olson, the Army's civilian biochemist who committed suicide 22 years ago after the CIA had spiked his drink with...
...shrill production better suited to the Minsky circuit. Kids of all ages would call it a vulgar rip-off from the Story Theater (TIME, March 1), which has been far more sensitively translated to TV by Creator Paul Sills in a syndicated commercial series. CRITIC-AT-LARGE is a quarter-hour with Berkeley Associate Professor of Journalism David Littlejohn, 34, putting his bite, or perhaps overbite, on subjects ranging from Stravinsky to TV Guide, Disneyland to Solzhenitsyn. Like so much of public TV, Critic-at-Large is just a video version of a show just as well left to radio...
...essence of the campaign was there on the three networks in 30 minutes of election-eve prime time. The Republicans bought the first quarter-hour to rerun Richard Nixon's speech at a Phoenix rally two days earlier. The Democrats purchased the second segment to present Senator Edmund Muskie, speaking from a study in Cape Elizabeth, Me. The contrast was telling...
...last quarter-hour of their 90-minute meeting, Nixon and Mrs. Meir dismissed their aides and talked alone. The Israeli Prime Minister was known to have two thoughts on her mind. She wanted Nixon to have a clear idea of Israel's minimal conditions for a final settlement, which include continued control over the Golan Heights and those sections of Jerusalem seized during the Six-Day War. In addition, she was determined to let the President know that Israel intended to boycott any negotiations with the Arabs until the missile violations are halted...
...site of New York's annual free Shakespeare festival. Another Delacorte gift, the Central Park Zoo's animated clock, is designed in the form of an animal carrousel. As its base revolves to glockenspiel music, the clock chimes one of 32 nursery rhymes on the quarter-hour and sends a comical beast dancing every half hour...