Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., had been caught sending secret documents on the missile program to unauthorized businessmen, newsmen and Congressmen. The motivation: Nickerson was making a hero's fight on behalf of the Army missile program ("I was trying anonymously to influence certain key people") against the Air Force's assigned task of operating all the null 1,500-mile missiles, and was thereby (like Billy Mitchell, said the script) risking his career in obedience to higher duty...
...York Herald Tribune's syndicated (90 papers) John Crosby. But in terms of his effect on which way the dial turns, he is the nation's most influential TV critic. Last week the Tulsa Tribune became the 96th newspaper (total circ. 15 million) to take his TV Key. Among other subscribers: the Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Bulletin, Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Herald & Express, Detroit Times, New York Journal-American. A survey of viewers in Kansas City, where TV Key runs in the Star, estimated recently that a Scheuer boost could fatten a show's Trendex rating...
...position to help raise television standards." Unfortunately, TV's standards tend to drag down Scheuer's own; simply finding five or six shows to recommend each day means including some very doubtful ones. On some days prospects look so thin that TV Key simply advises: "This is the right evening to catch up with a good book or a good movie...
...interesting phase." What he really meant is that he and many fellow economists are genuinely baffled by the economy's performance. They have merely to look around them at the signs of economic hustle and bustle to observe the obvious health of the economy. Yet many of the key statistics that economists have used for years to measure the economy's health indicate that it is on the edge of a slow...
...Chrysler President K. T. Keller, who in 1944 asked him to come to Chrysler as assistant to the president. Later, under President L. L. Colbert, Cope moved into corporate public relations, expanded the staff from three to 60, became a vice president in 1952 and one of the key men in pushing Chrysler's hightailed "forward look...