Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months the unofficial want ad buzzed along the network grapevine. Gossip said the job was going begging, and many a hopeful hotshot managed to get his name noised about as a candidate. But the yearners never had much of a chance. Last week one of the plushiest producing jobs in the television business went to CBS Vice President Hubbell Robinson Jr., 53, the man who had dreamed up the Ford series in the first place...
...says Worsley. the cargo cults persist, but with the development of modern political forms, they begin to wither away. "In Melanesia, ordinary political bodies, trade unions, and native councils are becoming the normal media through which the islanders express their aspirations ... It now seems unlikely that any major movement along cargo-cult lines will recur...
Bombs & Bacilli. It was in 1941 that Orano contracted the disease that made him a pariah. Italian troops and officials in Somaliland had run from the British, but Orano persisted in taking a boatload of supplies to hungry leprosy victims in a remote colony. Caught in an air attack along the way. he suffered some 50 superficial wounds from bomb fragments. Ashore, he helped bandage wounded leprosy patients, and the disease-causing Hansen's bacilli entered his own wounds...
...fond is the shopper of gathering gossip along with the groceries that supermarket lounges are the coming thing. The Kroger chain (1,400 stores) is putting lounges in all its new supermarkets, with foam-rubber sofas, partitions to dampen noise, vending machines that serve drinks and food. To keep the kiddies busy-and teach them that the supermarket is the place to bring mom-supermarkets have blossomed with circuslike kiddy corners and amusements. Among last week's offerings: a cartoon theater, now used by 75 supermarkets, that seats up to 40 children, changes its 20-minute show every week...
Interesting though much of Packard's evidence may be, it never really proves his basic point that U.S. class lines are hardening. In fact it suggests just the opposite-a continually changing social scene. At one point Packard himself concedes that the "American populace [is] arranged along a continuum [with] a series of bulges and contractions." Much of what Packard describes as status seeking is indeed foolish, and some of it may be evil; but much of it is also the result of man's human status, and the product of a free and mobile society...