Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they have turned Tibet into a hell on earth." Another speaker charged that "the British imperialists and Indian expansionists instigated the Tibetan upper-strata reactionary clique to carry out a traitorous armed rebellion . . . We want to warn the Indian expansionists . . . Please be more clear-minded; do not lift a rock that will squash your own feet...
Proposed for a $20,000-a-year job as a director of the Tennessee Valley Authority by President Eisenhower: Arkansas' former Democratic Congressman Brooks Hays, 60, defeated last November in his bid for re-election by an eleventh-hour write-in vote of Little Rock school segregationists, hastily mobilized to squelch Moderate Hays and his gradualism...
...have looked strange, but there on the TV screen was Bing Crosby extolling the virtues of a kitchen crammed with American Gas Association appliances. Other times, other channels, John Wayne, Rock Hudson and even Zsa Zsa Gabor clutched Gillette razors, while Teresa Wright praised Scott Paper. Ever since Jack Benny came on saying "JellO again," radio and TV stars have plugged away at their sponsors' commercials, but never before have so many Hollywood big shots-some of whom otherwise shun TV-been available for commercial spieling...
...above all, Dulles was the clear, stern conscience of freedom. Said Dulles: "Our nation must stand as a solid rock in a storm-tossed world . . . Rededication to the faith of our fathers is . . . what is needed to make apparent the futility of any world program based on the suppression of freedom...
Your Hit Parade (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Dorothy Collins and Johnny Desmond sing taps at the funeral of a show that, since 1935, has taken everything the tunesmiths and a faddist public could throw at it, is finally succumbing to the effects of rock 'n' roll...