Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Composer-inventor Effinger expects his biggest market to be the field of education. "Copies are being made in schools every day," he says, "making up examinations, making theses, and so on.'' He warns enthusiastic musical illiterates not to "expect a rush of composers suddenly to sit down behind desks with cigarettes dangling out of their mouths and begin pouring out a ream of symphonies on these machines. The Music Writer will simply be used instead of a pen when it comes to making finished copies...
Under PHS, on the other hand, doctors can expect rotation of duty every couple of years. Another attraction: since PHS is a uniformed service, membership makes the doctors draftproof. There will be no drastic reshuffling of personnel. The bureau's medical service had been going downhill so long that half its doctors were PHS men on loan; the other half now simply don PHS uniforms. But from the PHS manpower pool will come an immediate increase of 50% in doctors assigned, making a total...
...less than a ten-day supply of Chevrolets on hand. Dallas dealer inventories averaged 25% below last year's, and Seattle's Totem Pontiac Co. had on hand only half its normal 65 new cars. Said a Washington Buick dealer: "We sold 136 cars in May, expect to sell 170 in June. June will be the best month we ever...
...Defense Department's new security information order, which newsmen predicted would create a brownout of news from the Pentagon, last week produced a byproduct they did not expect. In Washington, Illinois Democratic Congressman William Dawson announced that his Government Operations Committee is launching an investigation to find out whether the Administration is withholding "pertinent and timely information from [the press]." A special subcommittee plans to question everyone from Syndicated Columnist Drew Pearson to the Washington Post and Times Herald's Managing Editor J. Russell Wiggins, chairman of the Freedom of Information Committee of the American Society of Newspaper...
...defiance of gravity, most successful TV shows have a way of going in two directions at once-up and down. They push themselves up in popularity by dishing out the kind of entertainment the customers have been led to expect, and then dig themselves into a rut by shoveling out scheduled helpings of the predictable. Sooner or later the customers get the idea, and suddenly a very popular TV show starts going in one direction only. "What we need," say the TV brass-hats, "is something different-but not too different." Last week they offered viewers something tried, something true...