Word: waves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico James Stokes told of an egg-shaped U.F.O. that sped overhead leaving "a kind of heat wave like radiation from a giant sun lamp." ¶ In Chicago, two cops and a fireman chased a ball of light in a squad...
...beyond "the ruthless law of the [rating] decimal point." Said Cunningham: "As advertising men we must be interested in all TV, not only in our own programs. We want it to be a strong, well-rounded medium. A multiplication of the same type of show, such as the present wave of singers, quizzes and westerns, can only narrow the base of TV, restrict its power and its value to the people. Anybody who buys another western, unless it is a marked creative departure from the pattern, ought to turn in his grey flannel suit and go to the eternal showers...
...Vatican station will broadcast from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. (old schedule: four hours in the afternoon, five at night) in Latin and 27 other languages, including Russian, Chinese and eleven others of Communist-sphere countries. Announcers are 20 Jesuits, each a language specialist. U.S. short-wave sets can receive the station in the 31-, 41-and 48-meter bands. In addition to news, theological talks and church ceremonies, the new broadcasts will include chamber music once a week...
...steadily weakening ... Of course there are still some people around who can't face the facts of life, and so they turn anxiously to Gloomy Gusses like Karl Earth and Reinhold Niebuhr as an escape. But their brand of revived Fundamentalism obviously will not survive the present wave of postwar hysteria. In general, it seems to me that modern man is slowly but surely waking up to the realization that in order to move forward towards a scientific and democratic civilization he must rely on intelligent faith in himself...
...farmhouse, every road, every French-employed work gang into a guerrilla front line. A bout of fellagha Mau-Mauism periodically drives the local European population into a frenzy. Whole villages go on "gook-hunts." Says Servan-Schreiber: "The police and the army are helpless ... so they let the wave pass, hoping that the Arabs are not fools enough to stay out of doors. In a small town, by the time the fun is over, there will be two or three of them lying in the street ... It is a phenomenon like avalanches in snowy countries. You have to live with...