Word: prompting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bets, under British law, are not contracts, and disputes over them cannot be taken to court. Instead, Britain's racing fans toss their problems to Editor Clements and the daily Sporting Life. They get straight, prompt answers, which in track circles have all the authority that courts give to true legal questions; Editor Clements guesses that to date more than $1,500,000 "and innumerable pints of beer" have ridden on his decisions...
...supposed to be back on U.S. television with an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. But no sooner had Domenico landed than he learned that back home in Rome his wife had given birth to a son. Marco. Tempted though he was to fly home for a prompt look at his heir, Domenico decided that the show must go on. He showed up at the Sullivan show, and to no one's surprise, sang Nel Blu. Domenico already has another song written to celebrate the baby's arrival. Its title: lo (I). Says he: "It means 'What...
...point to old charges at the U.N. and elsewhere that the USAF was launching "provocative" flights across the U.S.S.R. The State Department apologized for the violation of Soviet airspace, denied that it was deliberate, told Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn Thompson to seek the airmen's prompt return. At week's end the Soviet government dropped off a note to Thompson to say that the U.S.S.R. 1) "takes into consideration" the U.S. regrets about crossing the border, 2) "expects" the U.S. to take "urgent and effective measures to prevent repetition...
Speaking from a paneled room of Rio's Catete Palace, with 20 hemisphere ambassadors present, Kubitschek praised the U.S. for its prompt aid in reconstructing war-ruined European economies. But, he said sadly, Washington did not show "equal interest in the serious problem of development in countries still with rudimentary economies." Thus, according to Kubitschek, Latin America found itself "in a more precarious and afflicted position than the nations devastated by war, and has become the most vulnerable point within the Western coalition." The President warned: "The Western cause will unavoidably suffer if in its own hemisphere no help...
Proposed action by the FCC may clear the way for a change in WHRB's FM frequency, William R. Malone '58, former technical director of WHRB, said yesterday. The station hopes for prompt consideration of its petition so that it may be on the air at 105.5 megacycles, channel 288, by registration in September...