Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...provide TIME with raw material on such cover subjects as right-wing Demagogue Pierre Poujade (TIME, March 19, 1956) and Charles de Gaulle (TIME, Jan. 5, 1959 and May 26, 1958). An old North African hand, he was able to judge last week's Algerian story against the background of his coverage of the last days of French rule in Morocco and of the British-French invasion of Suez...
...sell his scheme, Saarinen had his longtime friend Charles Eames make a film on the trials of an air passenger, in which one background noise was the squeak of shoes. Washington officials were sold, last week displayed Saarinen's design for the building, to be completed in the spring of 1961. The field itself will occupy 9,800 acres near Chantilly, Va. (23 miles west of Washington), boast two major runways each 2¼ miles long. Saarinen admits to not having solved another major headache for air travelers: the long wait for baggage. "After a careful survey," Saarinen says...
...Newman, who was to get royalties on all ore concentrate sold by Oreclone, and Robert Rodman, father of the president and of the secretary-treasurer of the company. Both jointly submitted to SEC injunctions in another stock violation case, and both were described by Lefkowitz as having a "notorious background in the stock manipulation field." The real underwriter of the Oreclone issue did not appear on the stock registration: Norman Pinsker of New York, who told the SEC that the underwriting was originally his "deal." But because he is facing charges of violating the SEC law by selling unregistered stock...
...Hearing Aid. A hearing aid, "the Extended Range," which covers four octaves and eliminates most background noises and distortions that often make hearing difficult with aids, was put on sale by Zenith Radio Corp. Price...
...hold onto something not just material, which would give me that inner strength to turn the other cheek. Jews have become strong over their thousands of years of oppression, and I wanted to become part of that strength. As a Negro, I felt emotionally tied to Judaism. Certainly the background of my people and their history cannot be compared to that of Judaism, but the same oppression and obstacles thrown in our way were overcome by a greater force than mere tenacity ... I wanted to become a Jew because Judaism held an honesty and spiritual peace that was lacking...