Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be affected by an advertising fadeout on the air waves. In Britain, where cigarette ads were banned from TV in 1965, sales dipped at first, then recovered and went to new highs. In the U.S., per capita sales began declining last year, partly because young sters no longer feel the social need to smoke. They have been increasingly concerned about the health hazards, particularly since mid-1967, when the networks were forced to air antismoking commercials on TV. Indeed, the tobaccomen's decision to turn off their tremendously expensive and competitive TV campaigns may well have been helped...
...appeal mostly to adults and are less intrusive than TV commercials, which often run while children are viewing. Even so, Senator Moss has warned publishers to avoid accepting "massive print advertising campaigns" and urged them to "maintain current ratios" of cigarette to non-cigarette advertising. Quite likely, publishers will feel increasing moral pressure to drop cigarette...
...behind the scenes, did much of the housing convention organizing take "citizen participation" in local government as one of their guiding lights and speared no pains to assure a large turnout of angry citizens for the council meeting and housing convention rallies. Get out a large number who feel strongly about rent control, tell them that they should speak up, and you're almost certain to have a major confrontation on the issue...
Furthermore, the votes of the "faithless five," as they have come to be termed, have alienated many housing convention members from the council; they feel that a majority of the council is not in favor of any real action on the housing crisis. The view is understandable since, for those who fought for it, rent control is the most real action that can be taken. Yet, given the very mixed consequences of the proposal, it is quite possible to reach the conclusion that rent control would do more harm than good. This, more than the fabled dollars of landlords...
Critics of the program, which include the National Welfare Rights Organization, feel the main problem lies in the recruiting system. The actual communication with AFDC clients is done by the Department of Public Welfare social workers, after which a recipient is referred...