Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beating the drums for a full-scale inquiry by his Senate Commerce Committee, scheduled to start in Manhattan next month, Monroney told Chicago Newscaster Len O'Connor: "Five hundred people polled out of 70 million is not a proper sample, and that is a phony way of oversimplifying the choice or prominence of television programs bought by the advertising agencies for various manufacturers. We shouldn't worship these ratings as we do ... Frankly, I don't think we can pass legislation, but I do think the public . . . is entitled to know why they are getting certain programs...
...recent years thousands of the swizzle sticks have come into the U.S. from Haiti. The Chicago board of health last week estimated that some 10,000 sticks have been shipped into its area alone (luckily, no deaths have yet resulted). The board fanned out its entire force of inspectors, confiscated 6,290 sticks from Chicago novelty shops and taverns. It picked up more from recent visitors to Haiti, including 60 from an accountant who spent all week phoning friends to get back the 40 other sticks he gave away as presents. The Haitian Public Health Service also confiscated voodoo swizzle...
...belt, Scientist Van Allen told the American Physical Society at Chicago, seems to be a great doughnut made chiefly of fast-moving electrons and protons circulating around the earth on both sides of its magnetic equator (see diagram). Only the lower parts have been observed with any accuracy. The upper limits are deduced from knowledge of the magnetic field. The Air Force's Pioneer, soaring far past the 1,400-mile level reached by the Explorers, confirmed "tentatively and partially" that the lethal radiation drops off sharply around 7,000 miles...
...opera in America worth speaking of outside New York City," said the Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing not long ago. When the statement touched off explosions of operatic temper from one end of the country to the other (TIME, Oct. 13), Bing exempted San Francisco and Chicago from his blacklist. But last week the Chicago Lyric Opera concluded a ragged season by staging a production of Aïda that made Bing's apologies to Chicago seem entirely unnecessary...
...Chicago's Aïda served as an inspiring advertisement for Rudolf Bing...