Word: publics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week ahead of the big day, the guajiros began arriving-the first few by plane, then big shipments by train. Navy ships, buses and private cars brought in the hordes. One column of 1,500 rode into town on horseback. FARMERS, THIS IS YOUR HOME, read the signs on public buildings...
Unless there is a dramatic and unexpected reversal of trends, 1959 will be the worst year for poliomyelitis in the U.S. since 1955, when the Salk vaccine became generally available. With the peak not expected for another month, the U.S. Public Health Service reported last week that polio is almost twice as prevalent this year as last. Latest tallies showed 1,462 cases (956 paralytic) so far in 1959, v. 877 (only 437 paralytic) for the same period in 1958. In the latest week reported, the increase was especially alarming: 257 cases-a 50% jump over the previous week...
...charm, CBS has recognized it, and sometimes rued it, right from the start. Two years ago, when the network announced that economic pressures might force the captain off the air, 10,000 parents protested. CBS suddenly decided that the show would stay, since it was "an excellent public service." One CBS executive put it more bluntly: "We were terrified of the mothers...
...Japan today, there are exactly six color TV receivers in the hands of private owners. But at 60 railroad stations and other public places within transmitting distance of Tokyo last week, hundreds of thousands of Japanese enthusiastically gathered before sets supplied by the Nippon Television Network and watched two hours of daily color programs...
...outsiders and what do they project? Rodman thinks that most abstract artists ride outside and project precious little. "The whole emphasis in art for the past hundred years," he maintains, "has been as much against society as possible. The critics say, 'This is art,' and so the public accepts it. The insider is trying to return to the aim of art in ages past; he is portraying the raw thing-not mere elegance or mere social concepts either. He is totally unconcerned with what kind of figure he cuts in the arena. His qualities are personal, and they...