Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great advantage to such strategy is that it bypasses the Russell Amendment to Rule XXII. The major drawback is that it forces the issue not on the question of the filibuster, but on whether the Senate is a continuing body. In the past, the appeal of sitting in the selfsame, continuing Senate as Webster. Clay and Calhoun has been too compelling for many a Senator otherwise sympathetic to civil rights causes...
When Castro's seasick invaders fought past army patrols from a marshy beachhead to mountain hideouts two years ago, their extinction seemed certain. All that was needed from Batista's army, 21,000 strong and well armed, was the simple nerve required to go in and flush them out. The army tried terror instead of courage; it tortured suspects, shipped the dismembered bodies of students home to their mothers. Result: a flood of arms and recruits for Castro...
...Chipmunk Song (The Chipmunks; Liberty). No escape from this one. Songwriter Ross (Witch Doctor) Bagdasarian's clamorous fable about a trio of quarreling, caroling chipmunks sold more records (an estimated 3,500,000) in a shorter time (five weeks) than any other disk in the past year and probably in recording history. The "chipmunks" are actually Bagdasarian's own voice recorded at varying speeds. Having screeched their way through Christmas at the top of the pop charts, the little beasts seem destined to meet the Easter bunny...
...which is simply radio cashing in on established TV advertising slogans, a method of attacking the public's ears while it rests its eyes); "engineered circulation" (urging consumers to use what they have already bought); and "sound thinking" (the proper use of mood music during commercials). During the past month Joe Culligan's time salesmen have already chalked up more than $2,500,000 worth of business...
...past 20 years, industrial designers have become a self-conscious coterie, well paid and well content with their mission : to save mankind from ugliness in man-made products. The work of such men as Henry Dreyfuss, Ward Bennett and Raymond Loewy in Manhattan and Eero Saarinen (who is both architect and designer) in Detroit has raised industrial design from a mechanical slough of vulgarity. For in the early years of mass production, the sound design of artisans gave way to the cheaply pretentious. The craftsmanlike simplicity of early American furniture was displaced by curlicues and overstuffing, and bathtubs took...