Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shoe Fit. In San Antonio, after he had received an anonymous letter from a wronged husband who said that he intended to kill his cheating wife and her boy friend two days hence. Sheriff Owen Kilday read the message over station KITE and asked the would-be killer to give himself up, within two hours received calls from ten fearful women asking for police protection...
Wednesday. First off at his press conference, President Eisenhower was taxed with Nixon's Chicago statement, admitted right away that "I haven't even read it." Then Ike spoke sharp sentences in which he seemed to turn his back on his own party's campaign. "I do subscribe to this theory: foreign policy ought to be kept out of partisan debate . . . I realize that when someone makes a charge another individual is going to reply. I deplore that. They have made the charges about me. I will not answer, do not expect to. So I believe...
...evidence, waved them in the air crying: "Here, my lords, we have a Russian recipe book, an Indian school magazine, a letter saying a check has been lost, another that it has been found. There are 10,000 of these documents and it would be impossible for anybody to read them all," yet when any individual asked what the charge against him was, he was referred to the entire body of evidence. Ordered to produce more specific evidence, the Crown narrowed its case to a simple charge of conspiracy. Last week, under Maisels' fire, the Crown withdrew the indictment...
...told a Buffalo gathering of optometrists how he had adapted the Fresnel lens to make trioptic spectacles for the near-blind. Feinbloom has concentrated for decades on the problem of 500,000 Americans who are legally blind (less than 10% useful vision), but who could read and work if only they could get the right glasses. Previous Feinbloom inventions supplied correction for only one focal range (close work such as reading and sewing, middle range for dressing and household tasks, or distance for outdoors), and the patient had to keep switching three pairs of glasses. Each pair was expensive...
...hundred years from now and there should be preserved the Kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white or color evidence of decadence [and] escapism . . . If this state of affairs continues, we may alter an advertising slogan to read: 'Look Now, Pay Later...