Word: 50th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel last week, the temperature was a frigid 26°, but in the grand ballroom the atmosphere of Carrier Corp.'s 50th anniversary stockholders' meeting was glowingly warm. President William Bynum, 62, announced that sales in fiscal 1964 jumped 9%, to $325 million. Directors recently voted a 20% dividend raise, and shareholders happily approved a three-for-two stock split...
Because Russia wants color TV by 1967 for the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution and needs foreign equipment to meet that deadline, the contenders are avidly wooing the Soviets. (The only other countries that aim to begin color transmission within two years are Britain, which leans strongly to the U.S. system, and Germany, which naturally favors its own system.) France sent Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte to Moscow in January, accompanied by technicians who demonstrated the French system. If the Soviet bloc goes France's way-perhaps under the influence of France's recent trade concessions-a substantial...
...50th birthday of a serving lady is a closely observed phenomenon in the House dining room. To an optimist, it may presage the transformation of a tight-lipped grapefruit juice-flavored lady into a placid and friendly peanut butter sandwich...
Hubert Humphrey once characterized the wise Senator as "one who reads the New Republic frequently and takes its advice not at all." The "N.R." celebrates its 50th anniversary this month, and it seems a good time to ask why Humphrey's remark rings so true. Though carefully read, widely respected, and perhaps even Established, the New Republic has never really been influential...
...editors have given the 50th anniversary edition the pretentious title, "The Great Society--Creating America," and have arranged the contributing essays into officious sounding categories like Economy, Youth, Environment, etc. Aside from these formalities, however, the issue is as relaxed and discursive as any. TRB, for instance, rambles about as brilliantly as ever, finally declaring his "congenital optimism" in America's future...