Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cliburn himself thinks that he was playing better in Moscow than he ever has before. Certainly it was his first hearing before such a knowledgeable, big-time audience. Trying last week to account for Van's sudden starry appearance in the musical firmament, a Radio Moscow interviewer put it this way: "He is the American Sputnik-developed in secret...
...long, dim view of this nuptial speedup is taken this week by the Christian Century: "By what great shift in sociology, psychology, temperature or radiation are we to account for that clamant coupling of pre-ministerial students which threatens now to turn our dormitories into nurseries, our campuses into playpens, our graduate colleges into preschools? Ordinarily we would plead for no ivory tower, but if the choice is ivory tower or brooder coop, the remoter symbol looks better all the time...
McCANN-ERICKSON, which captured G.M.'s $24 million Buick ad account (TIME, Feb. 24), will also get company's $3,000,000 G.M.C. truck and motor coach billings. Detroit's Campbell-Ewald agency is favored to hook G.M.'s still-open Frigidaire account...
...Swedish immigrant, a brooding, phlegmatic day laborer who can rarely get a day's work. In the evenings he takes to his Bible as to a painkilling drug. Mama works at home pasting paper bags together for a local factory. She keeps a kind of debit account with God, believing that she owes heaven a prayer of gratitude whenever life on earth is remotely bearable. The parents arrange things so that the boy sees his preacher once a week and his doctor perhaps twice a year...
Mayo stated that one of the primary objectives of the Association is the determination of the causes of premature births, which account for half of all infant deaths. Each year 160,000 infants die during and after birth, Mayo said. These deaths comprise ten per cent of the total mortality rate in the United States...