Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment, India's determination to hear, see or speak no evil seemed to be paying off. Red China announced a token withdrawal of its troops from the disputed Indian border outpost of Longju, and the Hindustan Times thought it could see a new Chinese "peace offensive." The offensive did not last long...
...everywhere," grinned Kubitschek, "I see everybody and the people see me. Deep in the interior, where airliners never go, when the children see an airplane, they call to their mothers: 'Look, mama, there goes President Juscelino!'" So far he has logged 6,000 flying hours in the air, prefers a helicopter to a car for getting around traffic-jammed...
...disarms the lot of them, and sleepless, burning-eyed, with the energy of obsession drives them across the desert, drives them without horses, without food, without water toward a little Spanish town whose name means sanity. And as the cruel days go by, the heroes come to see that the coward is the greater hero, the more deeply courageous man. What they have is physical courage, not to be despised. But what he has is the highest kind of courage, the courage of his spiritual convictions. In the end it is the coward's kind of courage that brings...
...Robinson has a reputation for imagination and drive, carved as program boss of CBS, a job he held for a dozen years, until last summer. It was Robinson who patiently brought along young producers and writers, prodded them to "think offbeat," helped develop such CBS shows as Playhouse go, See It Now, Twentieth Century. At CBS, suave and slender (5 ft. 8 in., 150 Ibs.) Vice President Robinson also became known as a cold, meticulous personality, given to $250 Dunhill suits. He sometimes interrupted business conferences to twit an aide for wearing the "wrong" shoes or socks...
During its 26-year run, 3,080,025 tourists and Angelenos paid (1959 top: $4.50) to see the show, jeer its four sneering villains, cheer its seven winning heroes. The customers also downed 5,700,000 bottles of free beer, ate 3,000,000 sandwiches. A sort of Everylush that chronicles the progress of evil as it pickles its weak title character, The Drunkard turned the Theatre Mart into a favorite resort for W. C. Fields, Mae West, Lily Pons. Though the playhouse has been put on the block, there is a chance that The Drunkard may survive...