Word: ets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most formidable of the extremist groups is the John Birch Society (TIME, March 10. et seq.), founded three years ago by retired Massachusetts Candymaker (Welch's Fudge and Sugar Daddy) Robert Welch, 62. So suspicious that he often denounces shuffling or coughing in his audience as "a dirty Communist trick," Welch has a gift for such phrases as "Comsymp." which he uses as a label for many who disagree with him, and a talent for such slander as describing Dwight Eisenhower as "a conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy." His causes are many: they range from a campaign against...
...really knew just why the U.S. consumer has suddenly relaxed the stern budget watching that has been so severe a drag on the nation's economic recovery (TIME, July 21 et seq.). Scorning such psychological explanations as Christmas spirit or a diminishing fear of war, the economists could only note that more jobs, longer work weeks, and increased dividends for the nation's 15 million stockholders had lifted personal income by $4 billion in October to a record annual rate of $425 billion. Furthermore, though the cost of living has risen less than 1%, the average weekly take...
...York Philharmonic Young People's Concert with Leonard Bernstein (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Claude Debussy's La Mer and Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé are the central examples in a program that asks: "What Is Impressionism?" Lenny answers...
...enjoyed the contrasts: Harvard's tone balloons out round and warm, and projects best, as in the Welsh folk songs arranged by Davison--dense, pondering textures. But Yale thrusts out its lines with thinner but sharper tone, singing Leisring's O Fillii et Feliae with great verve...
...five commissioners uphold Piper, they will place another U.S. Government agency at odds with Attorney General Bobby Kennedy's trustbusters-who have already had similar skirmishes with the Treasury Department on the issue of bank mergers (TIME, Sept. 8 et seq.). But if past performance is any guide, the trustbusters will probably press ahead with their case, undeterred by the disagreement of fellow bureaucrats...