Word: equal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Ayub nor your two worthy readers from Pakistan had anything to say in favor of democracy and civil rights. This is in great contrast to the statement of Prime Minister Nehru that the answer to the stupendous development of Communist China is a "challenge to democracy to achieve equal progress without coercion," not a Mirzaesque approach that democracy is unfit for this challenge...
Ruled unconstitutional last week: a 1956 Louisiana law prohibiting Negroes from participating in sports events with whites. A three-judge federal court (including Judge John Minor Wisdom, head of the contested Eisenhower delegation to the Republican National Convention in 1952) ruled that the Louisiana statute violates the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment, issued a temporary injunction to prevent the state from enforcing the law. Plaintiff in the lawsuit: Joe Dorsey, New Orleans Negro light-heavyweight prizefighter. Biggest probable beneficiary: the Sugar Bowl, which for two years has had trouble getting top Northern football teams, most of which have...
...Electrola label this year, earned royalties of $60,000 (of which her father-manager doles out pocket money at the rate of 26? a month). Sighing with all the delicate modulation of a stricken heifer, she belts out Tin Pan Alley tunes and ersatz German approximations with equal gusto. Conny just finished her first movie, commands a following of 56 adoring fan clubs with about 10,000 members. She travels about Germany with a retinue that includes a tutor and a private secretary...
...This week the University of Michigan's Consumer Attitude Survey reported consumer optimism up sharply, though not so much as after the 1953-54 recession. More secure in their personal income, consumers are now planning stepped-up purchases, particularly in housing and household goods. Department-store sales, already equal to 1957, reflected this. While rising prices on new cars brought some sales resistance, consumers were swinging to the buy side on both new and used cars...
Auto sales gave a concrete demonstration of the changing consumer attitude. Sales for the middle ten days of November took their steepest climb of the year to an average of 16,200 a day, about equal to November 1957. Since dealers so far have been handicapped by shortages, automen regard this as the first real test of the auto market, the biggest question mark in the 1959 economy. The Chase Manhattan Bank predicted sales of 5,500,000 to 6,500,000 cars. "Six million or more," it said, "would support a vigorous expansion of the entire economy...