Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last eight years the Harvard Liberal Union and the UN Council have devoted much of their energy to the showing of popular films--an activity totally irrelevent to the purposes of their organizations. The showing of pictures by these groups has irritated Ivy Films, which feels it has the sole right to put on movies. More important, profit-making films have endangered the tax-free status of the University. Last week, after earlier limitations had failed, the Administration permanently ended the showing of films for profit. Though the University has taken the only possible course, it has left the political...
...past, since membership fees and contributions were too small to finance their activities, the H.L.U and UN Council showed movies as well. The profits were used mostly to pay the expenses of well-known speakers or to organize conferences. Showing popular films is now illegal, so unless these groups can find other means of raising money, they may have to curtail their projects...
Pioneering as the first American jazz bandleader ever to go jamming around Israel, drum-busting Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton tortured his tom-toms in Tel Aviv, had frenetic listeners in the aisles stomping out the Horn, Israel's most popular folk dance. After one concert, during which some 100 cops hooked arms to bar gate-crashers from the hall, rhythm-happy Hampton laid down his drumsticks and gasped: "Man, in a country that's younger than jazz itself, these Israeli cats have sure growed fast...
...independent companies carry the Weston name on everything from ice cream to paper boxes, in Canada, India. South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In the U.S., three Weston firms operate a chain of seven plants from Passaic. N.J. to Tacoma. Wash., making biscuits marketed under three names, including its popular F.F.V. (Famous Food of Virginia) label...
...everyone -slightly salted "Tavern Appetizers," spicy gingersnaps, big "Wagon Wheel" chocolate cream wafers and sweet "Shortcakes" for dessert, breads that go from "Ryvita" health bread to the standard "National Loaf" sandwich bread that is a staple of Britain's diet. Americans might find Weston's most popular bread too off-white and flabby for their taste, but Weston also makes a whiter, crustier loaf, which sells for a few cents more...