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...Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia, similar programs were broadcast at the same time, using little-known or totally unknown young performers. This is the CBS Repertoire Workshop, a joint project of the five TV stations owned by the network, intended not as a fling for amateurs but as a springboard for apprentice professionals. Each station will produce seven shows, and all 35 will be seen in all five cities...
...Hussein argue that Nasser does not really intend to pull out his thousands of troops in any case. The Saudi Arabs are certain that Egypt's boss has his eye on their huge oil fields-fifth biggest producers in the world-and hopes to use Yemen as a springboard for revolt in the rest of the Arabian peninsula...
...House luncheon, President Kennedy added to the argument. Said he to the Latin American ministers: "The American republics must act now to contain the expansion of Communism from Cuba, and also take those steps which will lead to the liberation of Cuba. The Communist Party seeks to establish a springboard for an attack on the entire hemisphere by subversion, by infiltration, by all the other rather obvious apparatus that the Communist system uses so effectively. Communism can be the death of this hemisphere...
...unintentional conspiracy of silence. There were clues to be found back in the financial pages-but, even by the oddest journalistic judgment, that was hardly where the story belonged. And sometimes even the financial-page footprints were obscure. "The stock market acted yesterday like a diver going off a springboard," reported the New York Times in a heavy-handed attempt at cuteness. "It went up, down, up, and then plunged." The New York Post ran straight-faced an optimistic handout from a brokerage firm ("Chemical stocks should resist further market weakness"). In Birmingham. Ala., the News managed to get through...
...failure) may dictate a sudden change in their whole way of life. For the rich (who generally have several other places elsewhere), an apartment is a kind of permanently rented hotel suite. For seekers of anonymity or those who merely hope to be rich, the city apartment is a springboard, a stopping-off place that can be left without regret or nostalgia on the way to a better spot. It is ideal for those who value convenience and mobility above roots (their roots are generally back in Indiana, or in the suburbs), for people who are eternally on the edge...