Word: interests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said there was a need for "a common language despite the ideological conflict to which he staunchly adheres. Many will find this hard to believe after the years of baffling doubletalk. Yet I believe that on certain fundamentals we can find a common language because we have a common interest. That interest lies simply in the basic will to survive, shared by free men and Communists alike...
Power to Spare. So is pro football. Already solidly in the black (projected profits this season for San Francisco: $500,000), the N.F.L. is eying the growing national interest in the game (CBS's pro-football TV audience: some 20 million) and planning to expand to Minneapolis-St. Paul and Dallas next year. What is more, the newly formed American Football League, headed by Dallas Oilman Lamar Hunt, has high hopes of playing next year in Houston, Dallas, New York, Denver, Boston, Buffalo and Los Angeles. Says Hunt: "Unless the N.F.L. folds, there will be two professional football leagues...
...there has been no testimony; two committee investigators have merely talked to Clark about his business affairs. But even before the subcommittee took a hand, ABC confronted him with a significant decision: he must get rid of his outside music interests or else quit TV. The companies involved: Swan Records, Sea Lark Enterprises, January Music, Arch Music. (Entrepreneur Clark also has an interest in Drexel Productions, a TV packaging firm, and may have connections with Jamie Records, other record companies, a talent agency, a record-pressing plant, and a production company named Clarkfeld.) Faced with the ABC ultimatum, Clark decided...
...whom will react the same way. You get your brains knocked out a few times, and you get blown up several times. If you are a born teacher and not one fabricated by the professors of pedagogy, you become a first-class veteran, able to gauge the amount of interest, potential of comprehension, degrees of hostility, success of presentation and the need for ventilation, without any conscious effort on your part. You have a mass of antennae, which will spring to the alert position at the sight of any group gathered in a room...
...been more than a year since that modern American morality play, The Ugly American, hit the scene with its less than surprising revelations about State Department boobery abroad. Whatever its literary drawbacks--and they were great--the book did arouse public interest in an important field...