Word: popularizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story may be "Pike's Peak" to you and others, but it's pique to many of us who hate to see elevated to an exemplary pinnacle a man who has failed in his first marriage and who, as bishop, will be the dispenser of the increasingly popular institution of annulment to those members of the clergy and laity who want to find a convenient loophole through which to chuck their original spouses, so as to take on new ones that are more attractive or advantageous...
...deep change, the Roman Catholic Church has played a foresighted and honorable role; it sensed popular anger at dictators in Argentina. Colombia and Venezuela, and stood quietly but firmly against them. Last week the church in Cuba shifted adroitly into opposition to Strongman Fulgencio Batista by calling for a "national-unity government" to replace his. By contrast, the U.S. State Department has sometimes had an unhappy knack of appearing to back the dictators. Former Inter-American Affairs Chief Henry Holland publicly hailed Peron as a "great Argentine." Secretary of State Dulles took time during one of his two visits...
Fury stars a horse in its title role, but, insist its makers, the popular NBC daytime children's show is not another western "because it has no Indians and no saloons." What Fury does have sets it prairies apart from other outdoor TV films. Packed with each Saturday morning episode (11 a.m., E.S.T.) is a plain little moral. It may be a homely little philosophical truth or a wholesome primer on civil defense, bicycle safety, wildlife preservation or freedom of the press. Last week Fury's young friends ran into trouble with a predatory cougar because they...
...years, this has meant that there are no such courses. This spring, Assistant Professor Sapp is giving one, and it has attracted about five times as many students as used to be normal for such a course, despite the fact that it is given at a very crowded and popular hour. This should remove all doubt that there is a desire and a need for more courses of this type. The students should not have to wait another four years for the next...
...changed the filter on its Winston brand until in 1957 it let through 3.8 milligrams of nicotine, 22 milligrams of tar v. 3 milligrams of nicotine, 22 milligrams of tar for unfiltered king-size Chesterfield. The percentages are similar for Marlboro, Viceroy, Tareyton, Parliament and the rest of the popular filters. Net effect: "The public has paid premium prices of 2? to 6? per pack . . . for 'protection' they did not receive...