Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle learned otherwise on a speaker's platform six weeks ago in Conakry, when, as De Gaulle sat in icy silence. Touré thundered: "We prefer poverty in liberty to riches in slavery!" That night the outraged general abruptly canceled a diner intime with Touré. Outraged in turn, Touré went all out in his campaign against the constitution. Result: more than 95% of his people voted...
...keep under purview the adherence of all" Arab neighbors to the amity pledge they gave in last summer's U.N. resolution, Hammarskjold set up in Jordan's capital of Amman a new "U.N. organ," in the person of Under Secretary Pier P. Spinelli of Italy. He in turn would have other watchdogs in Beirut and Damascus -but not in Cairo, where President Nasser insists there is no need...
...creamy package deal with ABC involving about $2,000,000, Bing will do two hour-long shows a year for five years, also turn out ten filmed shows, for which he will act only as producer. Groans Bing: "I know I can't get by much longer singing." Many who heard him last week will howl in disagreement...
...trying to add double sound. After a test run in seven cities, Lawrence Welk's Wednesday show (ABC) was broadcast nationwide in stereo, i.e., two different mikes feeding the schmalz into two transmitters. Fans yearning to catch the slightest nuance in each oom-pah-pah could turn on their AM radio as well as the TV set and, by placing them seven to ten feet apart, achieve an approximation of stereo sound. The experiment worked so well that ABC equipped 75 stations with the TV-radio rig, and NBC will try the same gimmick with the George Gobel show...
...catch and hold his audience with each role in turn. But he can leave it only the memory of a man in a dinner-jacket on a bare stage...