Word: papering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appropriated funds were spent in the U.S. by recipient nations. And the agency can tick off an impressive list of U.S. industries that will suffer because of last week's House action: fertilizers will lose $125 million; fuels, $35 million; metals, $85 million; chemicals, $75 million; pulp and paper, $25 million; machinery and equipment, $150 million; vehicles and parts, $80 million; rail equipment, $20 million; rubber, $15 million; various other industries, $100 million...
Paintings cover the walls and ceilings, and still Pleuthner doodles on. The dial of his bathroom scales shows a baby's face. He answers legal documents with pastel scrawls on colored construction paper. Recently, and with a little embarrassment, his lawyer turned the town's official notices over to the courts complete with an emblazoned DON'T TREAD ON ME and coiled snake -Pleuthner's art work and heartfelt response. Cocking his head, he says: "The people in Scarsdale may be wealthy, but esthetically, they're paupers...
Back in the 1950s, the Daily Worker was viewed with alarm and distrust as the official organ of the U.S. Communist Party. Then, as circulation declined along with party membership, the paper dropped "Daily" from its title in 1958 and became a weekly. Three years later, it began appearing twice a week. Last week, after a partially successful fund-raising campaign, it once again turned into a daily with a new title, Daily World...
...Image. Aware that today's kids consider the Communist Party rigid and conservative, staffers are trying to broaden the paper's appeal. Hence, the name change from Worker to World. "The term Worker was too exclusive," says Executive Editor Simon Gerson, who has been with the paper since 1931. "We want to reach students and white-collar workers as well." Though the Communist Party is the chief backer, the World has picked up support from sympathizers who, even if they reject Communism, share its opposition to racial inequality and the war in Viet...
Despite attempts to recruit nonparty youths to work on the paper, it is still largely staffed by oldtime party members. The readership is similarly middleaged. Blandness seems to be the chief weakness of the World, as well as a certain amateurism. On page 3 of an issue last week, a story told how "Dick Gregory lay gravely ill" in a jail while friends feared for his life. On page 8 of the same issue was a photograph of Gregory just after his release from jail with the caption: "Dick's back." But to the faithful, the Daily World...