Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business-oriented party expected to reason with labor? If the President who was swept into office in 1964 on the largest majority vote ever could not unite his country, how can Nixon, who twice before lost elections and won the last time with a minority of the popular vote, unify the people...
...Caracas resembles a collage of advertising posters. At night its plazas glitter and bustle with popular rallies. Next Sunday is election day, and Venezuelans are enjoying the campaign with the enthusiasm of a people liberated from dictatorial rule only ten years ago. No fewer than 28 parties are competing for congressional seats, and have festooned the capital with tigers, roosters, flying saucers and other party symbols. In one square, the chief opposition presidential candidate, Rafael Caldera, head of the Social Christian Party, has a huge calendar ticking off the days until el cambio, "the change." In riposte, the governing Acci...
Broadening the popular appeal with less expensive circus acts is one way of attracting more customers. Billionaire Howard Hughes thinks that joining a full range of recreational facilities with gambling may be the winning combination. He is planning to build a $150 million addition to the Sands Hotel that will include rooms for chess and table tennis, an ice-skating rink, a movie theater, a vast bowling alley and a poolroom. Hughes recently paid an estimated $17 million for the Strip's 524-room Landmark Hotel, giving him six hotels (and their casinos) worth $80 million. That moved...
Bacon's show may prove to be the most popular of the season; in the first week, all 19 oils have been either sold or reserved for prices ranging upward from $35,000 for the smallest multiple-image portraits. For nearly 20 years, he has been renowned in inner circles as Britain's finest figurative painter; his works have hung in U.S. museums since the early 1950s. His commercial success is a telling comment on just how open-minded the general public has become, for Bacon's material is, to put it simply, sick...
...members should be elected by popular election in every House, not chosen by the House Committees...