Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indulge in a kind of thinking which assumes that foreign policy decisions should be made on the basis of opinion polls, we might as well decide now to surrender our position of world leadership to the Communists and become a second-rate nation. It is the responsibility of a leader to lead public opinion-not just to follow it. He must get all the facts before making a decision, and then he must develop support for that decision among the people by making the facts known to them...
...five-story Manhattan townhouse, a summer place on Long Island, a Florida hideaway, the caretaker's cottage at the Arden estate (he gave the big house to Columbia University, which uses it for special conferences). Beneath his placid, patrician bearing, he flexes long-toughened sinews of a first-rate, determined administrator and an autocrat of the timetable, is a stickler for details ("Honest Ave, the Hairsplitter"). He badgers aides at all hours, once sent state police searching for a commissioner who had failed to check out properly. Intense, he can work his staff to exhaustion, still feel fit himself...
...parliamentary deadlock at the polls next spring. Some, noting that the switch deprived Nu of control over electoral machinery, held that Nu is now on his way out as a political leader. "If the initiative for turning over the government really did come from Nu, he must be rated a statesman," said one observer in Rangoon. "If not, he would still rate as a diplomatist for succeeding in keeping the word 'coup' out of announcements of this week's events...
...Ichijo's new wealth goes for "luxuries." In the nearby market town of Sakata, one store manager reports: "We are selling $800 motor plows at the rate of one a day-one-third down and three years to pay the rest. Formerly, business was good if we sold 30 plows a year." But for today's young Japanese farmer, a motor plow is more than just a useful agricultural implement. Explains one Ichijo villager: "The new saying around here is: If you don't own a motor plow, no bride will come...
...what may prove to be the Crimson's toughest game of the year, the varsity soccer team will meet a powerful Cornell squad this afternoon at Ithaca. The Big Red, pre-season favorites to lead the Ivy League this year, rate as slight favorites in today's game...