Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expects help "from only one kind of contemporary thinker: the flashy existentialist or teutonic theologian who ministers to the 'Big Questions' with big answers and bigger 'systems.' " Harvard is in a worse way, says Bartley, since "it has become forward to look backward and to call perverse those dry and analytical philosophers who deflate the wind bags of our time instead of blowing up more themselves...
Arthur Godfrey Time: The great man swirled upstage last week to open his new CBS-TV show (weekdays, 11 a.m. E.S.T.) with a mock striptease. The occasion seemed to call for a drastic gesture. Beset by a giveaway program on rival NBC (The Price Is Right), Arthur Godfrey was fighting back with a giveaway of his own-in which winners would get anything "reasonable" they asked for-plus a new format that scraps his old 60-minute simulcast for an hour of radio followed by a half-hour of straight TV. After a decade, it was his first concession that...
...want life adjustment, "to make children unselfish and interested in others"? Keats is for facts and discipline first. Throughout the book he scores against the life adjusters, who do not believe that mastery of a subject is very important, who give "open-book tests" in basic courses and proudly call their high schools "cafeterias of learning," who offer such dessert courses as "sewing, cooking, interior decorating, teaching, garage repair, driver training, dress design, fashion modeling, home budgeting and marketing, gardening, farming, carpentry, electrical'repair, machine tooling, mechanical drawing, first aid, chorus, tap. ballroom and square dancing, fly casting...
...satellites, which he prefers to call a sub-satellite, is so light that it can be carried almost as an afterthought by any orbit-bound rocket. It is a balloon of plastic film .00025 in. thick, bonded to aluminum foil .0005 in. thick and packed in a doughnut-shaped container. To inflate the balloon, O'Sullivan provides a capsule of nitrogen gas at 2,000 Ibs. pressure per square inch. The whole apparatus weighs only...
Dealers were discovering that hoopla and hustle paid off. In St. Joseph. Mo., dealers reduced prices, had their salesmen call 17,000 listings in the phone book (their pitch: "You can save a lot of money if you buy now''). They sold 454 cars and trucks in nine days-almost twice as much as in the preceding three weeks. Akron dealers raffled off $100 a day among people who took trial drives in new cars, boosted sales by more than 50%. Philadelphia De Soto Dealer Harold B. Robinson promised buyers that they could postpone installment payments if laid...