Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years the white-supremacist fathers of Tuskegee, county seat of Macon County, Ala., have contemplated two obtrusive facts about their small (pop. 6,700), highly segregated community. Fact No. 1: about 70% (4,800) of Tuskegee's residents are Negro. Fact No. 2: the town is the site of Tuskegee Institute, one of the South's influential Negro campuses and a powerhouse in the struggle for civil rights. The fear that some of the institute's teachings, e.g., on the Negro's right to the ballot, would seep into the town of Tuskegee has been heightened...
Last week, as Sukarno's opponents had predicted, the Communists began to convert presidential smiles into the hard currency of power. In the first of a series of local elections, Indonesia's capital city of Djakarta (pop. 4,000,000) voted in a new municipal council. Two years ago, in Indonesia's first general election, the Communists ran a poor fourth in Djakarta. This time, trading on Sukarno's almost mystic hold over the Indonesian masses, the Reds increased their vote from 96,000 to 135,000, ran second only to the powerful Masjumi (Moslem) Party...
...broadcasters advertising space rates for running program listings. When Albuquerque radio and TV stations KOB and KGGM said they would no longer pay for the space, the papers-the Albuquerque Journal and evening Tribune, the Santa Fe New Mexican-dropped their listings. The TV stations countered by showering Albuquerque (pop. 175,500) with 165,000 free program logs, while the far-roving Denver Post snatched at local circulation by adding Albuquerque programs to its daily TV log. "These television stations are asking for the moon," protested the New Mexican's Managing Editor Joe Lawler. Invoking lunar logic himself, Lawler...
Fast Start. There is something about the Redlegs' current cockiness that perks up the whole town.(pop. 525,000). Rooting for them reminds Cincinnati fans that, in a way, they own big-league baseball. The 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings-were the first professional baseball team ever-the first team, that is, on which every member freely admitted that he was being paid to play. They were also the best; they had a 130-game winning streak before the Brooklyn Atlantics finally beat them in June...
...years; some believe that disks will always account for the bulk of the industry's sales. Victor Chief Recording Engineer William Miltenburg argues that disks will stay necessary for popular music, if nothing else, because record buyers will be unwilling to pay stereo prices for the one-shot pop hits. This raises the question of how far stereo prices can be cut. Today a stereo recording of Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony costs a whopping $18.95; the same symphony on LP disk sells for $3.98. Much of the basic cost goes into raw materials; magnetic tape is more expensive...