Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Things to Do." The Pope's day usually begins about 4 a.m. He bathes, shaves with his old safety razor, meditates and prays until 7 when he says Mass. Breakfast is at 8; until 10 he answers letters, quickly skims the newspapers. He is busy with audiences until lunch, after which he prays in his private chapel, then works until 7:45, when he returns to the chapel to say his rosary. Dinner is at 8, bedtime about 10. Sometimes he varies the schedule by rising around 2 a.m., working a couple of hours, then going back...
...first like a small village of a dozen small houses. Deeper down, the diggers found mud and stone fortifications 10 to 15 ft. thick, and a wooden upper story that was apparently destroyed by fire about 4,500 B.C. Under the ruins were human skeletons and a great mass of pottery, clay figurines and other artifacts...
Small Ahead of Big? Only General Motors remained mum, but the silence concealed a lot of activity. Farther ahead than either of its Big Three competitors toward mass-producing a small car, G.M. will have ready for introduction in the fall a compact, six-cylinder auto with a part-aluminum engine in the rear. Last week the trade magazine Motor Life reported that G.M. is also considering manufacturing several models (e.g., Pontiac, Buick) using one basic body shell, will sell them through its separate dealers...
Comeback for Tubes. To meet the growing competition of transistors, RCA demonstrated a vacuum tube only one fifteenth as large as general-purpose miniature tubes in mass production. RCA said the thimble-sized "Nuvistor" tube outperforms regular tubes and transistors in higher frequencies and at higher operating temperatures. When commercial production begins next year, prices will be "competitive" with regular tubes and transistors...
Presumably some of the authors with whom the new partners worked before will follow to the new firm. One obstacle to an early mass switch: a clause in standard publishing contracts requiring authors to give their publishers first refusal on their next book. Says Bessie of this clause: "I am not in favor of any devices to tie a writer to his publisher." As an inducement to new authors ("We hope to publish the best we can"), the partners are considering more lucrative terms for writers. One of the trio's projects: a line of high-quality paperbacks...