Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along with his political cronies and his political enemies. They also interviewed Little Rock city and school authorities. Justice Department officials in Washington. U.S. District Judge Ronald Davies. pool-hall characters standing around Little Rock's Central High School, and the Negro children kept out of school. In short, they interviewed everyone necessary for the whole, factual story on what Orval wrought-not merely a politely phrased set of questions and answers...
Worthington was shocked. Of late, everybody knew, the Humphreys had been terribly short of money: their phone had been disconnected and bills had been piling up in the house for months. Ingenuously, George had been carrying on, assuring his creditors that he would soon make good his debts; George's word was good enough...
...cocksureness of Fulton Lewis Jr., the literate wit of Eric Sevareid, the pear-shaped tones of Lowell Thomas. Gone now from radio is Winchell's clattering telegraph key and breathless bleat: too seldom heard is aging (79) H. V. Kaltenborn's clipped assurance. The news comes by short wave and on tape, the newsmen in snazzy ties and boutonnieres (ABC's popular John Cameron Swayze), and even in pairs (NBC's intelligent and informative duet, earnest Chet Huntley and wry David Brinkley). TV's journalists flit all over, like the technically muscle-flexing Wide, Wide...
...short stroll from the gutted hulk of Berlin's old Reichstag one blustery day last week, a young German girl stepped resolutely forward, smashed a bottle of German wine against a brand-new building set on the banks of the River Spree, proclaimed in a clear voice. "I christen you the Congress Hall in memory of Benjamin Franklin." Thus was opened Berlin's newest and most venturesome building, a joint project of the U.S., the West German government and the city of Berlin. Designed as a cultural center where plays, music, debates and symposiums will be held...
Connecticut retains most of the regulars which held the Elis to a 19-14 score last year, falling short of an upset when time ran out on them in the dying seconds of the game with the ball on the Yale three-yard line. The game is rated a toss...