Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ashbrook P. Bryant roamed about with a microphone around his neck, seeking truth. What about sponsor control? How about all those pressures and taboos? "Flyspecks," said CBS-TV President James T. Aubrey. "Completely insignificant." Why did Playhouse go-probably the best dramatic show in TV's brief history-disappear from the air? Because, said Stanton, the audience "became much smaller than we thought it should be." In television a few million viewers are not enough...
...Kennedy saw for himself in his triumphal trips to London, Paris and, more recently Latin America. During the presidential campaign, Kennedy also made much of the "missile gap" between the U.S. and the Soviet Union; within a few weeks after he took office, the missile gap somehow seemed to disappear (although the President was publicly annoyed at Defense Secretary Robert McNamara for saying as much at a news briefing. Kennedy himself said: "In terms of total military strength, the U.S. would not trade places with any nation on earth...
...innocence in American society. It is a good meditation, filled with elaborately balanced sentences that deserve to' be read twice, and must be if one is to understand them. But what of the egregious parson and his wife? They were an excellently burlesqued Macbeth and Lady, but they disappear halfway through the second act, leaving the porter to explain the rest of the play. Not very surprisingly, the audience wants its money back...
...distaste for Hughes, and to invite him back into the airline business would be humiliating indeed. But since no one else seemed prepared to bail Northeast out, to rebuff Hughes would very likely mean that Northeast would become the second major U.S. airline (the first: Capital) to disappear within a year...
...Perfectibilitarian (or Kennedy Democratic), which argues that the economy's ills "stem from bad policies of the last Administration and that now with new policies they will disappear...