Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the civil rights bill passed through the last stretch of the Senate foundry last week, the South's most famous Negro leader was drawing up plans for a Southwide campaign to make prompt use of the new weapon. Alabama's the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., hero of the history-making Montgomery boycott against Jim Crow buses, announced that his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (membership: 100-odd Negro leaders, mostly clergymen, in eleven states) is going to undertake a long-range drive to get Negro names on Dixie registration rolls...
Last week both politicians and reporters wondered whether Dwight Eisenhower's experiences with the 85th Congress would prompt him to alter his philosophy. Did he plan to wage a Truman-type "Give 'em hell" campaign next year against the men who had opposed his programs? His no was clear and unqualified. Said he at the press conference: "I will just have to pursue what is natural...
...permit a rigid stand on what the relationship is between nutrition, particularly the fat content of the diet, and atherosclerosis." Therefore it did not recommend "drastic dietary changes, specifically in the quantity or type of fat in the diet of the general population." Instead, the committee pleaded for prompt, thorough and uncompromising research to fix the facts. But it made a notable concession to the foes of fats, and especially saturated fats, by conceding that in any well-balanced diet for general good health, the fat content should be sufficient only to help meet the body's demands...
...whole question is of vital importance and merits prompt action; for it affects every...
...time around. Main reason: the shows have become so costly to produce that they must be broadcast at least twice to pay their way. The latest tally shows that the summer evening schedules of the three networks are clogged each week with no fewer than 65 programs that can prompt millions of viewers to mutter: "This is where I came in." Last week, because of the rerun deluge, New York's tabloid Mirror announced that the paper will simply stop reviewing TV for the summer...