Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mammoth ice floe half a mile wide and 40 miles long. The boiling seas were choked with icebergs, growlers or low-riding chunks of glaciers, massive hummocks of pack ice, and brash or bits of broken pack ice. Nowhere in all that snow-swirling polar frenzy was there sight, sound or sign of the Hans Hedtoft and her freight of 95 human beings...
Living with a son and a cluster of bodyguards in the Jaragua Hotel, Batista and his crew present a picture of wariness. One day last week the trigger-cock sound of a purse snapping shut in the hotel lobby made a group of his fellow Cuban exiles swivel around. Batista himself refuses to stand before an open window, spends almost all his time in his suite, scuttles out of the center of a ring of bodyguards only to eat. Trujillo's mouthpiece newspaper, El Caribe, outrightly told Batista to "get out," but he has nowhere to go. France last...
Needed: Understanding. Some old professionals on the scene in Cuba distinguished themselves with colorful yet thoughtful reporting that gave the reader a sound base for judgment. One was Scripps-Howard's Andrew Tully, who wrote of the Sports Palace trial of a Batista army officer: "The American Bar Association would have held up its hands in horror. For it was, largely, a spectacle -a circus-in which the accused was considered guilty and was dared to try to prove his innocence...
Author Henderson's literal translation -"Old pond:/ frog jumpin/ water-sound" -mirrors the surface picture beneath which lies Poet Bashó's elusive hidden meaning...
Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Cartoon characters join a few selected actors, singers and musicians in a sidelong glance at Tchaikovsky. For the benefit of amateur electronic engineers, the program will be broadcast in stereophonic sound, utilizing AM and FM radio as well...