Word: earshot
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...first time since February, the full Korean truce teams on both sides met together. Around the Panmunjom conference table duly appeared eight generals and two admirals, with 46 aides and advisers in the background. Reporters were hustled out of earshot, and censors told to strike out of their copy any hint of the nature of the negotiations...
...about the U.S. because they have never had a taste of the real thing. "Maybe we can save their souls," says Stem hopefully. Thai is also the hope of Radio Free Europe and the Voice of America, which are planning to broadcast the letters to all the Henrys within earshot...
When the President finished his 25-minute speech, there was polite applause from the front rows. Then the 50,000 and another 150,000 waiting out of earshot settled down to what most of them had come for anyway: the fireworks display...
...even been a chance that the hearings would be open. Senate Democrats headed off a Republican drive to throw the hearings open to press and public, and to the great continental retina of the TV camera. Democrats were anxious to keep General MacArthur's thundering rhetoric out of earshot of the microphones, and his dramatic profile off the screens of the 12 million television sets...
Changing Face. The face of midtown was changing fast. The dark old stone mansion on Fifth Avenue, where for years old Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt stubbornly held her stately dinners within earshot of swirling shopping crowds and the snarl of Fifth Avenue buses, had been replaced by Crowell-Collier's new white office building. Next to Rockefeller Center, the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas crumbled before the wrecking ball and plans for a new building for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. A great, bare office building was rising on the site of the Murray Hill Hotel, in whose Victorian...