Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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From the age of 14 on, most Indians go on a mass toot for every festival of the Inca, Christian and national calendars. Bolivia's independence day, last Sunday, which coincides with the fiesta of the Indians' well-beloved Virgin of Copacabana, set off a Class One or seven-day bender. But even on less special occasions, the Indians' consumption of crude corn chicha reaches fabulous proportions...
...trial, the prison doctor explained that Howlett was suffering from hysterical blindness which ended when he was set free. The defense said it might well recur if he were put behind bars again. The judge was not impressed. Last week Howlett was in prison again, this time for six: months, and still seeing clearly...
Some Japanese liberals feared that a dangerous precedent had been set, and wondered how the power of mass dismissal on ideological grounds might be used once the occupation had ended. But among the Japanese newspapermen the appeals of the discharged Communists met with little success, and few believed the Communist assertion that innocent people had been fired. Said balding, stocky Shoji Yasuda, managing editor of Tokyo's Yomiuri: "These people have been under surveillance for a long time and there's no mistake." The general public, conditioned by the Korean war and previous occupation directives against Japan...
Each miniature set, Sarnoff said, could be equipped specifically to pick up Voice of America broadcasts. The whole project would cost about $100 million; in return the Voice of America would get a potential audience of 250 million. Facing the TV cameras, Sarnoff cautiously added: "There are a number of ways to get them into the satellite nations, and even into Russia, but I think perhaps I should not discuss those ways in an open forum...
...Atlanta, more & more baseball fans were deserting the bleachers for their television sets. The Atlanta Crackers' President Earl Mann decided that something would have to be done. During the regular screening of the Crackers' game one night last week, the announcer first tried a little gentle persuasion: "If you want the national pastime continued on your TV set, make every effort to get out here at least once in the next few days . . . Realize that a few dollars spent for tickets is a small expenditure to protect your sports investment in your TV set." Then President Mann stepped...