Word: contentedness
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Stone Starter. The U.S. dairy industry issues a flood of calorific propaganda, blazoning on hundreds of thousands of cartons the legend, "You never outgrow your need for milk-drink three glasses of milk a day!" The message is illustrated with drawings of three generations of contented consumers. In the U.S...
No man knows more about surviving at the South Pole than Siple (TIME, Dec. 31, 1956), the obvious man to establish the first year-round colony in the world's deep freeze. As a Sea Scout, he went to the Antarctic 29 years ago with Admiral Richard E. Byrd...
In the uneasy autumn of 1957, the U.S. is reluctantly grasping the full, unwelcome meaning of Russian-made metal objects orbiting around the earth. Sputnik I and Sputnik II have painfully fractured the U.S.'s contented expectation that, behind an impenetrable shield of technological superiority, the nation could go...
Selected last summer as the mayoralty candidate when more likely prospects shied away, Hotelman Christenberry (Astor, Ambassador) soon ran into difficulty finding either 1) a choler-provoking issue or 2) money. So uninspired were New York Republican leaders over mayoralty chances that contributions which should have gone to the city...
The problem now appears solved by a set of morals-based readers called the Golden Rule Series, published by the American Book Co. of New York City. Subtitle of the series: the Modern McGuffey Readers. Wary of its competitors, American is keeping mum about its total sales. But, says contented...