Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Winning team at the Miami marathon," bragged NBC. "Audiences turned their attention to the CBS News team," proclaimed CBS. In the aftermath of the Democratic National Convention, each network announced that it had won the ratings game and quoted conflicting figures to prove it. Last week the A.C. Nielsen Co., which conducts the most reliable survey, confirmed NBC's claim. According to Nielsen, NBC drew an average 25% of the national viewing audience for the convention's four nights, compared with 23% for CBS and 16% for ABC (which came on the air from Miami Beach only...
...SPITE OF the televised hoo-ra-rah of Nixon's trip to China last February, and all the instant books on "The New China" which have proliferated in the aftermath, the need for reporting in-depth persists. Most of the small number of reporters given the chance to enter the country with the Presidential mission were caught by the suddenness of the Chinese overtures of friendliness, went on little notice, and had little notion of the country's history and customs. Once there, they discovered that some expertise was needed in order to treat the big stories; nationalism, the people...
Only a month ago, the first Yankelovich report showed a deepening sense of gloom and frustration about the stepped-up hostilities. At that time, two-thirds of the TIME Citizens Panel felt that the war had taken a sharp turn for the worse. Now, in the aftermath of the mining of North Vietnamese harbors and the summit meeting in Moscow, there has been a distinct change of mood. Seven out of ten panelists in the latest survey express a renewed confidence in the President's conduct of the war. Only three of ten give him a vote...
What happened? The traditional Japanese family system, in which parents lived with their children, gradually broke down in the aftermath of World War II. In the rush to the cities for jobs, and the severe housing shortage that followed, many children were simply unable or unwilling to care for their elderly relatives. During the past five years, average family size has shrunk from 4.9 members to 3.7. At the same time, life expectancy has risen sharply since the war (46.9 to 69.2 for men, 49.6 to 74.7 for women). The result is fewer children to care for more and more...
...would-be assassin, who seeks the same limelight. John Wilkes Booth, a professional actor, plotted to murder Abraham Lincoln in a theater where he would have a captive audience. Contemporary assassins are supplied with a much larger stage by television. They know that their deed, or its immediate aftermath, will be witnessed by millions of horror-struck citizens...