Word: regular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perfect Answer. Next morning, reporters could hardly contain themselves while awaiting President Eisenhower's arrival at his regular weekly news conference. Edgar's remarks had already become the subject for serious dissertations by professional budget cutters across the nation. How would the President get out of this one? First crack off the bat, the question came about Edgar's opinions. The President paused for an instant, tapped his finger gently on his desk, grinned and answered. "Edgar," he said quietly, "has been criticizing me since I was five years old." The problem dissolved in a roar...
Actually, the President had stepped well beyond the letter of the law in permitting the parolees to enter the U.S. and promising that they get regular citizenship status, which had to come from Congress. But he understood the outpouring of U.S. sympathy for Hungary's Freedom Fighters, and Congressmen, then on vacation, generally applauded his act. Since then, the necessary legislation has been bottled up in the Senate Judiciary Committee by Chairman James O. Eastland and in the House Immigration Subcommittee by Chairman Francis E. Walter, who is averse to any change in the McCarran-Walter Act, which...
...Minute Labyrinth. Since Texaco became sponsor in 1940, the program has introduced regular intermission features such as Opera News on the Air, Opera Quiz, and Clifton Fadiman's interviews as a roving reporter. Before that, Announcer Cross sometimes had to ad-lib for as long as 35 minutes. "Frantically reaching for ideas," he recalls, "I once described the labyrinth of paths beneath the opera house, then the cellar under the stage where the technicians were located." Another time he "dwelt thoughtfully on the numbers on the railroad cars" in which each singer would travel on tour...
...Caesar's Hour (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). TV's best regular comedy show...
Manufacturers are also trimming tobacco bills by salvaging the stems and scraps they once threw away, pulverizing them into homogenized tobacco to mix with regular leaf (TIME, June 18). As a result, makers bought 35 million lbs. less tobacco last year than in 1955, and tobaccoland farmers are howling. In North Carolina, where two-thirds of U.S. cigarette tobacco is grown, the state senate recently urged Congress to order that cigarette ingredients be stated on every package. Complained State Senator Henry G. Shelton: "What is happening to the cigarette is a shame. It is scrap tobacco at one end, cellulose...