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...original grantors had placed on the land, limitations cited earlier by Charles W. Eliot II '20, professor of City and Regional Planning. When the townspeople originally set the land aside as a common, they stipulated that it revert to original ownership if used for any but the public weal...
...asking for, e.g., NBC's World Wide 60, CBS Reports. Even ABC, lagging far behind, could boast of The Churchill Memoirs. Viewers agreed with Critic Gould that "the notion that a trustee of the public airways is deserving of applause because he reserves for the public weal a total of 2½ hours out of every three weeks borders on the incredible...
Whatever his record this year, the best seems yet to come for Rocky. His happy combination of mental zeal and physical weal long ago caught the approving eye of Boston's great Ted Williams, who has tried to get the young muscleman to curb his passion for bashing the ball-any ball -and to wait for a good pitch. Says Williams: "Some day Rocky is going to take the league apart...
...Commonwealth" has nothing to do with sharing riches. The word took root in Renaissance Europe as an equivalent for the old Roman res publica, i.e., the public good or the common weal. Oliver Cromwell's dictatorship in England (1649-53), after the execution of King Charles I, was therefore dubbed "the Commonwealth." The U.S. colonies liked the self-governing implications of the word, and several states (e.g., the Commonwealths of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania) still bear the name. As early as 1852, British officials were employing commonwealth as a euphemistic name for empire. It has now grown to mean...
...costly in effort and money-$100,000 a show (plus $75,000 for TV time). Though Sponsor Pan American World Airways picks up part of the tab, CBS loses money on the program. Murrow and Friendly may spend as much as a year preparing a single show, e.g., Automation, Weal or Woe?, or follow a breaking news story on two hours' notice and come back with the memorable Clinton...