Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quixotic Philosopher. Most of these countries (as did the U.S. after its own Revolutionary War) started freedom with a single, nationalistic political movement to which all patriots belonged as a matter of course. In Burma this party still bears the outdated name of the Anti-Fascist Peoples Freedom League and, under the quixotic leadership of pious, philosophic U Nu, has been just barely effective in holding off a long succession of revolts by two varieties of Communists, and such racial minorities as the Karens and the Shans. Last week this one frail, unifying force split asunder...
...lists, it closed the Ghana border, to stem the flow of pro-independence ideas from that newly independent state next door. Nevertheless, the nationalist fever mounted. "Ablodé! Ablodé! Ablodé!" (Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!) shouted nationalist speakers; the crowds roared back, "Wolo o wogebé o, milahoe!" (No matter what they...
Lawrence threw. The Man swung. The ball got past Redleg First Baseman George Crowe for a sharp single. For St. Louis fans, it did not seem to matter that the Cards were in the process of losing another game (7-3), that they lay moulting and mute in the cellar of the league. Stanley Frank Musial had hit in 14 consecutive games; he had pushed his lifetime total of hits to 2,986. Time might catch up with him before he came close to Ty Cobb's far-off collection of 4,191 hits. But this week, barring injury...
...Hate-Autos Year." If prices are part of Detroit's trouble, they are far from all of it. For a nation on wheels, the plight of the auto industry is a matter of intense popular concern. Many a U.S. male prizes his auto above all other possessions-sometimes even his wife. Since there are 80 million drivers, there are 80 million experts on cars-and naturally, on the industry that produces them. Thus Detroit has become the center of a vast family argument. Everyone has something to say about the 1958 cars. Some of the charges are right...
Love That Chrome. Despite all the yowling about chrome and size, the experts scoff at the notion that Detroit's problem-or even a major part of it-is a mere matter of style. "This industry grew because we have made it our business to find out what people want," says a G.M. economist, noting that his company surveys 2,000,000 potential buyers each year. They are dissected for their likes and dislikes, like frogs in a laboratory. Thousands of lengthy questionnaires are sent out; microphones are hidden in new cars in showrooms to catch comments; salesmen carry...