Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gettysburg last week, where President Ike Eisenhower was signing bills into law and relaxing on his farm (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), a familiar face was missing from the presidential press corps. After eight years of covering the White House, TIME'S Edwin Darby was moving from the nation's capital to the Midwest to become deputy chief of our Chicago bureau...
...Army's 499th Combat Engineer Battalion boarded nine C-119 Flying Boxcars at an air base near Stuttgart one afternoon last week. Their mission was to become familiar with the problems and advantages of moving themselves and their equipment by air. Within minutes, the 540 men and their heavy trucks and weapons disappeared into the yawning cargo holds, and the 20-ton planes took off over the Black Forest. It was perfect flying weather. As they flew along in tight formation, one engine of Plane 8 stuttered and cut out. The pilot requested and got permission to drop...
...time professional secretaries (the term for Y.M.C.A. local administrative officers), operates 8,360 headquarters buildings, 247 armed services centers, 186 industrial workers' centers, 89 refugee camp associations, 252 holiday hostels, 72 summer camps, and scores of schools and colleges. In almost every corner of the world people are familiar with its escutcheon, a red triangle whose sides symbolize the association's three concerns: spirit, mind and body...
...Jackpot. This week there remained some hesitancy about The Question's staying power. Can it ever, for example, get contestants to go for the full $64,000? Nonetheless, there was a familiar sound in the air-the sheeplike rustle of competitors rushing to get similar shows on the TV screens. Mutual Broadcasting System headquarters buzzed with talk about a quiz show with a jackpot of $250,000. All that is needed, confided Mutual's Pressagent Frank Zuzulo, is a group of three sponsors to finance it. An independent TV packager is reported canvassing the networks with a proposal...
...post of vice chairman. Yaleman Stevens came into the family textile business as a salesman, became president by the time he was 30, built the company into the nation's No. 2 textile manufacturer, earned a reputation as an intelligent, progressive businessman. As a Cabinet officer, he became familiar to U.S. television audiences as the decent but bumbling target of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy. Bob Stevens lost less by Government service than some businessmen in Government: he can buy J. P. Stevens stock at about $7 a share less than it sold for 2½ years...