Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neighborhood gossip), visit a cross section of homes in 64 markets. When they establish that a family has watched TV that day or the day before, they jog the viewer's memory by displaying a program schedule for the period and asking what was seen before or after normal household activity, e.g., shopping, dishwashing, linked to particular hours of the day. Every tenth interview is checked by a letter to the family from Pulse. For the average half-hour nighttime network program, Pulse gets its rating from some 7,000 interviews, puts together a national rating from its local...
...coal problem." said the party organ Neues Dentschland last month, "is a question of our entire people's economy." Industrial production may have to be curtailed in Czechoslovakia, which leans heavily on Polish coal. Battered Hungary's coal industry is operating at only 25% to 30% of normal. The satellites have been trying to get coal from Russia, but the Soviet coal industry itself fell short of quotas last year...
...slowly forcing East Germany's young aircraft industry to a halt. Hungary may have to lay off more than 200,000 workers in the next few months, and unemployment is a major problem in Bulgaria. The breakdown of Hungary's vitally located railroad system has prevented the normal flow of Rumanian oil to Poland, forcing the Poles to ration oil and gas. And poor harvests in Rumania, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria have cruelly pinched already inadequate food production; East Germany, which had hoped to end food rationing in 1957, has dropped the idea...
Speaking on the situation in Hungary, engineer Istvan Remenyi estimated it would be "miraculous" if one half of normal production in the mines could be restored within three months...
...plays which the Poets' Theatre has presented, Murrey Hargrove's The Martyrdom of Roy Wilson suffers from a lack of discipline and craftsmanship which is only redeemed by talented direction, acting, and technics. If not original in concept, it is at least original in its attempt to force normal speech patterns and language into a poetic form. The script occasionally rises to real eloquence, but more often it is tawdry and indulges in the most egregious bad taste. Mr. Hargrove's use of profanity is completely gratuitous, like a small boy swearing before his parents to see how they will...