Word: hysterias
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...Jordan People's Radio" (clandestine): "Since the murder of Feisal and Abdul Illah, Hussein has become a victim of continuous dreams or horrifying delusions. There are stories of Hussein having fits of hysteria. He beats his side whenever he has these fits. Listen, Hussein, our people are happy, and not sad about the murder of Feisal, Abdul Illah and Nuri asSaid. No black flags will be flown when you meet the same fate...
Certainly it would seem over simple to maintain, as Commerce Secretary Weeks did, that the Sputniks produced a wave of hysteria hoarding. A more sophisticated analysis is obviously necessary. Such a redefinition may well show that America, rich in private goods, is characterized by relative poverty in public goods. Public spending is now so heavily directed towards defense industries that funds for other government services are curtailed. But defense spending is neither an appropriate anti-recession measure nor, hopefully, a permanent cushion for an over-produced economy. To raise the weapons budget in times of depression will constitute an excuse...
...Depression days of the 1930s formed today at City Hall in this recession-hit steel town where one of every nine residents is receiving unemployment checks." The "news" sped across the U.S. Cried the Lorain evening Journal (circ. 26,517): "A vicious false report ... a case study in mass hysteria." Rewriting the U.P. rewriteman, a Journal editorial pointed out that Lorain (pop. 59,219) has a total of only 175 relief cases v. no at the same time last year. When three bakeries gave the city welfare department "a small assortment" of day-old bread and cakes for distribution...
...first time since the advent of TV, restrained programing of the type exploited by Max Rothman is on the upswing all over the U.S. Thanks in large part to the nation's hi-fi hysteria, the air waves now support 537 FM stations (against 521 TV stations) for the estimated 13 million sets in use. In the past two months FCC has made 22 grants for new FM stations, and 47 more are under construction. Several, like WFLN in Philadelphia, WEAW in Evanston, Ill., have expanded to AM to make their outlets better-paying propositions. Biggest single FM boom...
...Broadway sin and sex and smoke-filled rooms," Willson says, "but this company is different. It really is. Our kids weep with joy over the show, that's how much they feel about it. Do you know there hasn't been a gripe, not a bit of hysteria, not a fight from anyone since we started...