Word: national
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer need apply the principle of "moral certitude," or the absence of any doubt. And the churchmen announced that they are considering an almost revolutionary new policy on the most sensitive of issues: money. Many bishops, reported Cardinal-designate Terence Cooke of New York City, head of the nation's wealthiest diocese, approve in principle the idea of making an annual public report to their people on church finances...
...Alexander's Santa Monica, Calif, home. It was Edward Fitzgerald of McCall's calling, the resonant male voice said. "How would you like to be editor of McCall's?" The petite, blonde divorcee said she'd think it over. Although McCall's is the nation's largest women's magazine, with a circulation of 8,500,000, it has not had a female editor in 48 years, and Shana, 43, had not had any experience as an editor...
...Benti, CBS has an undoubted if minor exclusive: he is the nation's only Italian-Irish newscaster who is also a dropout from four Brooklyn high schools. After hitches in the Army and the Air Force, where he got his high school diploma, Benti in 1954 went to Indiana State Teachers' College on the G.I. Bill, later earned his master's at Iowa University...
THERE is no longer much question that cigarette smoking is a hazard to health; the medical evidence is overwhelming. The real debate now centers on what to do about it. That debate involves some fundamental issues, and they affect not only an industry that likes to call itself the nation's oldest-tobacco-but also several other major lines of business, notably advertising and broadcasting. More basically, the issues go to the heart of the concept of freedom at a time when personal freedoms are being expanded...
...almost entirely by internal expansion. Just how successful became known only last week. Issuing the first public financial report in its 119-year history, the behemoth of blue jeans announced that it earned $12.1 million in 1968 on sales of $196.8 million. That record makes it one of the nation's half-dozen biggest apparel manufacturers...