Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever so slightly; an alabaster pallor sculpts her cheeks; her hair is shaped to the head in a fluffy corona of lavender-rinsed silver platinum. With no effort at all, she generates a kind of sex appeal that is strangely rare in a town where sex is a major product. Marilyn Monroe parodies sex, and Jayne Mansfield parodies Marilyn Monroe. Kim Novak simply communicates sex without leers. She moves in a kind of rapt trance that is oddly provocative because it also seems innocent...
...Theater, DuPont Cavalcade) went off the air. The first jolt was the discovery that only 10.3% of the sample (270 people) had seen the shows in question. The next was the discovery that fully 31% of the viewers promptly left the room when the announcer began speaking of the product. Surprisingly, women proved more fidgety than men and far more likely (24% to 18%) to leave the room or switch to other channels even when the blurb (for an electric iron) was tailored to their tastes. Even worse, another 23% earned the right to a new designation: CEBU. A CEBU...
Free Diapers, Bottles. As much a product of shrewd management as cartoon whimsy, Disneyland was originally conceived as a $5,000,000 venture. But when dozens of big U.S. companies clamored for space to peddle or promote their wares, Walt Disney and his businessman brother Roy O. Disney quickly upped their sights, raised millions by leasing plots to 55 companies. Pepsi-Cola came in to operate Frontierland's Golden Horseshoe soft-drink saloon; American Motors Corp. shows Circarama movies; Pablum recently opened a brightly decorated "baby-changing and feeding station" complete with a trained nurse who hands out free...
...covering the battle of Stalingrad and the capture of Kharkov. He is also the author of two novels about Russia (A Room on the Route, The Time of the Assassins), as well as a recently published satire on the second Geneva Conference (The Looking-Glass Conference). For the product of his carefully acquired knowledge, plus that of a host of other students of the Russian scene, see FOREIGN NEWS, The Quick & the Dead...
Getting Results. As the 27th year of the Era of Trujillo neared an end, the strongman was still working a seven-day week and still getting results. The gross national product in 1956 was well over $500 million. Exports last year (mainly sugar, coffee, cocoa) reached a record high of $126.5 million. Imports in 1956 were held to $108.3 million, leaving a trade surplus of $18.2 million. The record 1957 budget, nicely balanced at $131.5 million, will buy more schools, hospitals and roads...