Word: cheerfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Angel (CBS) makes a long reach to Paris for a new comedy situation, introduces a French girl (Annie Fargé) who comes to the U.S. to marry an American architect (Marshall Thompson). Last week more cheer than anybody had a right to expect grew out of a plot in which the young couple's home was taken over as a polling place and the heroine wanted to turn the whole thing into a party, with ruffles on the voting booths. Although the assembly line may soon run the ignorant-immigrant theme into the ground, Actress Fargé triumphantly resists...
Guests, friends of Adams House, and officers of the University celebrated the two-hundredth anniversary of Apthorp House right regally last night. As was fitting and proper for the birthday of the eighteenth century building, now the residence of the Master of Adams House, order, harmony, and good cheer reigned...
...stop at 27,500 each. Berkeley will have more graduate students, an even more luminous faculty. U.C.L.A. will also have more graduates, more dormitories, and solider courses to stave off the encircling "commuter" state colleges. ¶ By 1970: Davis (4,950) will hit 10,000, A changing cow college (cheer: "Bossie. cow cow, honey bee bee, oleomargarine, oleo butterine, alfalfa-hey!"), Davis will soon be a general university on a 3,000-acre farm-campus. Santa Barbara (3,504) will hit 10.500. Riverside (1,633) will hit 7,250. Converted from a citrus experimental station, it aimed...
...Cheers & Merriment. As the President arrived at New York's Idlewild Airport and sped into Manhattan in his bubble-topped Lincoln, New Yorkers-125,000 of them-lined the streets to cheer him and to wave placards (WE ARE COUNTING ON YOU, IKE) as if he were a fighter climbing into the ring. Even the customary show of political partisanship was gone; Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner, who had never seen fit to greet the President on past visits, rode into town with...
Gloomy Indexes. There was little cheer last week at the latest figures of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Diffusion Index. This is a compilation of eight indicators that include new orders for durable goods, average work week, building awards, Dow-Jones industrials, and new incorporations. The index has often forecast downturns in the past. If an equal number of the eight indicators are rising or falling, the index stands at 50; if more fall than rise, the index dips proportionately below 50. In June the index turned sharply downward, fell well below 50. The bureau...