Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GREEN HORNET (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.). The masked crime fighter and his ever-faithful Kato buzz into action against "The Silent...
Grievous Deception. In Congress, where roughly one-fifth of the House and one-third of the Senate remain opposed to the war, most of the critics feel that their efforts have been futile, and have fallen silent. The most articulate of the antiwar Senators, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, concedes that the voices of dissent have not generated much volume. Last week he warned Moscow, Peking and Hanoi that they would be "grievously deceiving themselves if they underestimated the militant spirit" in the U.S. "I don't believe the President is isolated," said Fulbright. "The Congress...
Died. Francis X. Bushman, 83, first of the silent film idols; of a heart attack; in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Tall, flashing-eyed and granite-jawed, Bushman made more than 400 romantic two-reelers between 1911 and 1918, became a rage. "The King," they called him, and he lived the part - 18 secretaries to answer his fan mail, a 280-acre estate near Baltimore, 300 Great Danes, and a gold-trimmed Marmon limousine. He made and spent $6,000,000 in five years, and then his secret got out - a wife and five children. The fans faded, the 1929 crash wiped...
...outside, the hiss of air inside is just what the noise doctor ordered. Sound engineers refer to it as "white noise" or "acoustical perfume," and they use it widely, especially in offices, to blanket distracting sounds that spring out of silence into disconcerting acoustical relief. A too-silent Massachusetts Roman Catholic Church put in white noise to preserve the secrets of its confessionals...
...clinker either. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home brought tumult. He Touched Me touched everybody. Autumn Leaves, in French yet, wowed 'em, and People knocked 'em out. For encores she wailed her tearful Happy Days Are Here Again and, patting her bulging tummy, crooned Silent Night. And that was that. With thunderous cheers chasing her, Barbra tripped backstage to her house-trailer dressing room. There, in a symbolic act, her private hairdresser sheared her customary complicated coif into a modified Mia Farrow cut that Barbra could tend herself. Then she headed home in her chartered Aero...