Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats to speak out squarely against Dwight Eisenhower ("Eisenhower is a disappointing President"). Whereas most prospective presidential candidates make one trip abroad, Kefauver made three, covering Europe, the Middle East and Asia. And when the Soviet Union relaxed its restrictions against U.S. travelers. Kefauver was among the first to pop over to Moscow...
...Nigger Lovers." In two distant and different Southern small towns last week hell and high water almost came. In Clinton, Tenn. (pop. 4,000) white mobs rioted in the tree-shaded streets and the old courthouse square to stop the enrollment of twelve Negro students in the local high school. Clinton is the only place in Tennessee (except the federal enclave of Oak Ridge) to integrate its school, and outsiders came streaming in last week to lash the little town back into line...
...Kettering, Ohio (pop. 38,118), more than 1,000 people, headed by scientists, industrialists and Government officials, honored Charles F. Kettering, a big wheel in the invention of the self-starter, ethyl gasoline and the diesel engine for locomotives, on his 80th birthday. The man who is credited with contributing more to the automobile industry than anyone else said that at 80 he felt "no different than I felt at 40," demonstrated he felt spry enough to take a few turns around the dance floor with Mrs. Charles E. Wilson, wife of his oldtime associate at General Motors...
...fascinated by bourgeois hats. The cut-rate merchandise at C. & A. Modes, Ltd. seemed just what she wanted: among the 305. felt flowerpots, the cheap berets, the fluffy wool stocking caps there must be a creation that would be the envy of her home-town friends in Sverdlovsk (pop. 550,000) on the eastern slopes of the Urals...
...television screens with talking dogs and tattooed men, philosophical musings and the Piel Brothers. Though some of this procession represents the extremes of the huckster's art, the pattern reflects a basic shift in the philosophy of salesmanship that has influenced advertising from Madison Avenue to Madison, Calif, (pop. 400). The new pitch: sophisticated selling...