Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comparison of the Cabinets under Eisenhower, and under Kennedy and Johnson, will show what I mean. When I went to Washington as Republican National Chairman in 1953, I found that President Eisenhower had told all Cabinet officers that they could bring in their own men as deputies, staff assistants and advisers. When I looked over the list of appointments, I discovered that a great percentage of the jobs in the executive end of government had gone to Michigan and New York. Why? Well, first, that's where big business is. And second, the Cabinet, while long on brains...
...team of columnists have run down much of their material within the confines of the city. A revamped Sunday magazine, New York, keeps on top of the city's fast-changing fads and fashions; one recent article gave city housewives much the best of it in comparison with their sisters in suburbia. Most impressive of all, for the past eight weeks the Trib has been running an incisive daily series on New York's brutal and burgeoning big-city problems...
...household hot tap water). Helped by a catalyst, the methanol combines with oxygen, forming carbon dioxide and wa ter while releasing electrons. The 29-lb. cell produces 100 watts of power at 5 volts' pressure, and its efficiency is as high as 40% . An auto engine, by comparison, is doing well if it gets 15% efficiency out of its gasoline fuel...
...recent progress, East Germany looks today much like West Germany did 15 years ago. Last year its national output climbed 4.7% , to $5.5 billion; by comparison, West Germany's production soared 9%, to $102 billion. While few are hungry or homeless, the country is drab, shabby and without shine. The characteristic Iron Curtain odor of ersatz gasoline fumes and onions fried in cheap grease permeates the atmosphere. The average person's monthly income is 600 East marks, or $270 at the unrealistic official rate of exchange, but only $38 at the free market rate. A pound of coffee...
When, at the end, the narrator takes over completely, the film very nearly dissolves into fantasy. After scenes of Ireland's pleasant countryside, there are pictures of Kennedy's family; the austere background music of the first hour is replaced by a twinkling Irish ballad. There is the inevitable comparison with Lincoln (he alone "sits unmoved" as the procession passes by) and there are shots of the eternal flame ("the torch has been passed"). As the curtain closes, the narrator says that "Kennedy is invisible, but so is peace, and so are love and dreams...