Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Around the tables in Seattle's posh 410 Restaurant sat some of the top men in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, quietly talking strategy. At one table, the comments were mixed with uneasy hope and stifled distress. There sat two men who had dared to come out against arrogant...
Life's biggest moment came for Ed McCarthy last year before the television cameras at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco. As a longtime Republican, a hard-working precinct worker, an alternate delegate to the convention-and a member in good standing of the United Steelworkers-Ed was...
To discerning ears it was soon clear that Mr. and Mrs. Edwards were too gruesome to be real. One West Coast listener thought they were "an old couple obviously trying to make a comeback"; another insisted they were Margaret and Harry Truman. Their real identity: Orchestra Leader Paul Weston and...
ABC's Disneyland went into its fourth season with some hard-sell facts about the future. Instead of a birthday party, Walt Disney produced an hour-long trailer for Disneyland, the Mickey Mouse Club, and other Disney holdings including Zorro, a new film series full of the strangulated clich...
Priests passing through the lobby of Washington's Shoreham Hotel last week found themselves directed to the specially set-up bar (beer and soft drinks) by a sign advising: "Getting wild? You'll be tamed at the Lion's Den." Except for this convention-style japery, the...