Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Digest's fabulous growth, its editorial formula has not significantly changed since birth. To Digest editors, the magazine is an "invention" that can be refined, improved and expanded-not changed. But since it reflects the growing sophistication of its sources, the Digest is now a notably slicker product than the one founded in 1922, on 4,000 borrowed dollars, by a Minnesota minister's son with an infallible instinct for middlebrow tastes. More than anything else, though, the Reader's Digest is a monument to DeWitt Wallace's reading habits-multiplied 22 million times...
Gaston Stanton responded that he was all in favor of Minow's plan to require TV set manufacturers to equip their product to receive ultrahigh frequencies, thus opening up some 70 additional channels and creating a new field for new broadcasters. Some of these stations presumably would be run by educational institutions, and some would be able to appeal to intellectually coherent audiences smaller than Gunsmoke pulls...
...President's revenue hopes were based on the estimates in his annual economic message, which followed the budget to Capitol Hill. The message, mainly the work of his Council of Economic Advisers, noted that the gross national product had risen from an annual rate of $501 billion in 1961's first quarter to a record $542 billion in the fourth, predicted that it would hit $570 billion for 1962 as a whole. "The gains already achieved have set the stage for further new records in output, employment, personal income and profits." That the dollar might retain its buying...
...down in combination with water. Creatures that have ammonia instead of water in their tissues, would digest food by ammonolysis, i.e., by combining it with ammonia. Instead of oxydizing food to liberate energy as earth's animals do, Jovian animals would combine it with nitrogen, and the final product would be cyanogen (CN)2, a gas that is violently poisonous to life on earth. "Jovian animals," says Astronomer Firsoff, "could breathe nitrogen and drink liquid ammonia. Whether they do remains to be seen...
Unhappily, in the present novel the author's spare style seems to be the product less of economy than of penury. The book consists of reminiscences by several former Edinburgh schoolgirls about an eccentric teacher who was the guru of their set. One of the girls betrayed the teacher, Miss Brodie, to a disapproving headmistress, and the story quietly explains the manner of the betrayal. The trouble with the novel is not that its subject is unpromising; Author Spark's fans are confident of her ability to discover astonishing falsities in unlikely places. The language stings as elegantly...