Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...society is a man-eat-man thing on every possible level," says Writer Rod Serling, 33, and his tough, uncompromising television plays (Patterns, Requiem for a Heavyweight, The Comedian) reflect this belief. So does his professional life. He has contended with networks, ad agencies and sponsors over what he could say, scrapped with directors over how to say it, become TV's most outspoken authority on the devious ways of television censorship. But short (5 ft. 5 in.) Author Serling is more in demand than any other playwright in the TV business, was recently corralled...
...work because there is no flow of air over them, so their job is done by rotating compressed air nozzles. One of them in the tail controls pitch. Two more, one on each wing tip, take care of roll and yaw. The X-14 can hover indefinitely at any level, supported by the deflected thrust of its engines and balanced by its nozzles. When the pilot wants to fly horizontally, he merely adjusts the Venetian blind so that the gas stream from the engines shoots directly astern. Then the X-14 flies like an ordinary jet plane, supported...
...market is cluttered with so many different styles that the homemakers often do not know what to buy. On the production level, there are some 4,000 different manufacturers, each with styles of his own. On the retail level, complains Executive Vice President Jim Best of the Southern Retail Furniture Association, there are many fast-buck artists who high-pressure consumers into buying furniture that does not suit their taste. Says Best: "The American housewife has lost her confidence in all but a few established furniture dealers. But she is still so confused with the wide choice that she often...
...will have an increasingly tough time trying to sell cheap but poorly made or cheap but flashy furniture, known in the trade as "Borax." Said Indianapolis Retailer Harry Schacter, co-chairman of the new council: "Manufacturers and retailers who stay with Borax will go down the drain. The taste level of Americans is being raised...
...TRAFFIC is showing first decline since 1949. Recession and recent air collisions cut revenue passenger miles in May by 2.6% below year-ago level...