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...feuds, e.g., CBS's Ed Sullivan v. NBC's Steve Allen on Sunday at 8 p.m. They made the rating seem even more potent than it really is-and believed the illusion themselves. Since NBC began trailing in the ratings, it has sensibly (if belatedly) dropped the habit of regularly publicizing the figures, but the habit clings where the ratings are higher...
...effective doorbell campaign. Disgruntled state employees flocked to ex-Employee Del Sesto's support. Attractive Lola Del Sesto and their three sons gave him an emotional appeal that Bachelor Denny Roberts did not have. Most important of all, much of the Italian-American vote shook off Democratic habit to boost a man with a name like Del Sesto...
...Will Flop." Both chambers of commerce and corporations try conscientiously to answer the letters they get. Up to a point, they welcome and even encourage the letter-writing habit on the theory that today's pupils will be tomorrow's customers and tourists. But the whole thing is getting out of hand. Says William H. P. Smith of the Boston chamber: "We're just swamped with this mail from kids. Most of the information they ask for they could find in any World Almanac, sometimes even in a phone book." "Some of our teachers," says Executive Director...
...complaints, there seems to be no quick cure for the habit. By now too many children have apparently come to believe that Government and industry have a sort of duty to get them through school. As one California fifth-grader wrote: "Will you Please send me some pitures of Pennsylvania Because I'am study Pennsylvaina In school. I need pictues of Penn. very bad. So please send me some pictures. If I don't get some picturs I will flop in school...
This attitude is slowly changing. The public still makes jokes about the weatherman from force of habit, but it relies on him too. Last year the U.S. public made more than 200 million telephone calls asking about the weather, and this year the score will be higher. Farmers called, hoping for rain. Vacationers, picnickers, soft-drink bottlers and garden-party hostesses called, hoping for clear skies. Every year more weather facts are demanded and supplied: sailing conditions for yachtsmen, rainfall on watersheds. Newspapers and TV feature weather maps. Industries, department stores, oil companies and airlines employ meteorologists. The armed services...