Word: pushed
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...good eye for talent, and an almost inexhaustible supply of it. Around Sydney in particular, half a dozen expert teachers have been remarkably successful in talking proud parents into paying for additional private lessons for their children. Once they take a professional interest in a prospective star, the coaches push the child into competition as soon as possible. Young Murray Rose, who won three Olympic gold medals and holds two free-style world records (400 meters and 440 yds.), is, at 18, a seven-year veteran of tough meets all over Australia. Lorraine Crapp, 19, winner of two gold medals...
...shrunk in an era of contentment and prosperity, seems unlikely to add many seats to the 22 it held in the last Parliament. The Social Credit party, a depression-born agrarian movement that turned right with prosperity, now controls the governments of Alberta and British Columbia, plans a major push in Eastern Canada this year to build up its Parliamentary bloc of 15. All of the opposition is encouraged by one Canadian political trend. Of the six provincial governments controlled by the Liberals as recently as 1944, four have been unseated...
...Jehovah's Witnesses zealously push propaganda into private homes. They divided Rome into zones visited daily by 75 propagandists . . . They distributed in a single month here 250,000 publications and 1,450,000 leaflets...
There is only one drawback: to promote the new brands is an expensive game. Fighting hard to push its late-starting Hit Parade in the filter race, American Tobacco Co. alone spent about $28 million on advertising last year...
...revelation of how poorly the public understands the function of banks. About 50% thought that a commercial bank was solely for "businessmen," some 34% could not define a mutual savings bank, and 40% believed that savings and loan associations were banks. As a result, suggested Banker Eaton, the big push by U.S. bankers to get people to save (TIME, Feb. 4) may be helping the savings and loan associations as much as it helps the banks...