Word: inge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...significant political party in Tanganyika: the Tanganyikan African National Union (TANU). In constitutional democracies of the West power structure is a horizontal spectrum of interests which overlap and conflict--rural and urban groups, business and labor, Republican and Democrat, numerous subdivisions. The decision making process is legislative, work- ing by compromise and accommodation of various interests, with certain common agreements as to the lengths that any majority coalition of interests can go in forcing its will on the minority...
...closer-to-home view of U.S. advertis ing came last week from Charles H. Percy, 41, socially aware chairman of Chicago's camera-making Bell & Howell Co. He urged businessmen to sponsor TV programs that contribute to the edification rather than the "stultification of the minds of our people." He suggested that advertisers stop sponsoring "stories of a Wild West that never was" and follow his own company's example by pumping their TV budgets into "controversial public-service programs." Said Percy: "While we recognize that the primary tasks of a business corporation are to provide goods...
...East Berlin riots in 1953 and the Hungarian revolution of 1956 and as they did last week, with the pressure mounting over Berlin. To a world that was surprised as much as it was dismayed (see THE WORLD). Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union would resume test ing its nuclear weapons, boasted of a superbomb that had the force of 100 million tons of TNT-5,000 times the size of the A-bomb that leveled Hiroshima, and five times the size of the biggest bomb in the U.S. arsenal. Two days later, the testing began with a medium...
...have arrived without guns on their shoulders. The President is counting on you. It's up to you to prove that the concepts and ideals of the American Revolution are still alive." Then, in a peroration more notable for its locker-room emotion than for its accurate understand ing of world opinion, he concluded: "Foreigners think we're fat, dumb and happy over here. They don't think we've got the stuff to make personal sacrifices for our way of life. You must show them...
...advantage by gambling $18 million to build a prototype for the Air Force to look at before it bought. With 40% of the world jet market, Boeing has so far sold 439 of its 707s, its medium-range 720s and its short-range 727s (first deliveries in 1963). Boe ing has succeeded in paying its development costs only by writing them off against its other profitable divisions. Still. Boeing President William M. Allen is the most optimistic company head in the business. Says he: "If present sales trends continue, we should ultimately reach the break-even point on all present...