Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME this month reached its 29th birthday. The news span we have covered in those 29 years is approximately the same as the news-conscious life of the head of the average TIME-reading family, now 42½ years old. But the character of the news itself is far different from what it used...
Because of the rich intelligence harvest that it reaped from captured Japanese diaries, the U.S. Army in World War II became highly diary-conscious. It vigorously emphasized the traditional order forbidding front-line soldiers and officers to keep diaries. One of the men enforcing this order was granite-chinned Major General Robert W. Grow, who ably led the U.S. 6th Armored Division from Utah Beach to Leipzig...
...Fashions. The Air Force is not alone. In spite of firm squelching, flying saucer stories have not died. They have changed somewhat with time; the first ones reported, sighted near Mt. Rainier in 1947, were round and shiny, and they flew in daylight with no unusual maneuvers. The saucer-conscious public duly reported many more like them. Then the fashion changed when two airline pilots told about seeing, near Montgomery, Ala. one night, an enormous, wingless, cigar-shaped craft with glowing portholes...
...stand on football taken by the Ivy League presidents is more than a purity code to impress the scandal-conscious public. If carried out it will shake up the Ivy set-up more than it has been since the eight colleges realized ivy grew on all their walls. If this policy is followed, the eight institutions, which have been ambling off in different directions for years, will join in a formal Ivy League-emphasis on the League...
...formal New England League with Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth playing B.U., B.C., and Holy Cross. There would be little room at present for all of these schools on all-Ivy schedules and furthermore the Ivy policy itself would probably appear too sugar-coated for these gate-receipt, publicity conscious colleges...