Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side of the battle: a segment of New York's 1,500,000 seven-to 20-year-olds whose values have so warped to the point that their crime rate has risen 60% in five years. On the other side of the battle: New York City's police department, facing a problem that has no real precedent in the department's 329 years of dealing with every crime known...
...anchor at its stern, gaily-blinking lights and signal flags. This vehicle was trundled off the Boston Public Garden's stage last week and sent moonward with a bang, a yellow flash and an ominous puff of smoke. From there on, with the help of a first-rate cast (Tenors Norman Kelley and David Lloyd, Bass Baritone Donald Gramm, Sopranos Adelaide Bishop and Lorena Spence), the opera worked its way to the moon and back, picking up a Purple People Eater as it went along...
This week there were signs that the worst in inventory liquidation-which reached a phenomenal annual rate of $9 billion-may be over. The Commerce Department reported that while there was "no clear evidence that inventory liquidation is slowing," sales and production have steadied. The history of previous recessions shows that once sales steady, inventory liquidation comes to an end (see chart). Wholesale and retail sales moved ahead in April, are expected to show a slight drop for May. If they hold steady for a few months, economists hope that the cut in inventories will...
...system together, CAA plans a series of giant computers at major traffic centers to keep track of each plane, guide it safely along the airways. By mid-1959 CAA hopes to have computer centers at New York, Washington, Boston, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago and Detroit, add new cities at the rate of six each year. But by next winter, when the first big jets start whistling along the already crowded airways, there will be only one computer operating for certain, and that one on an experimental basis in Indianapolis...
...left-wing thought." For a young man whose will is as weak as his life drive, this strange combination paves the road to the lower depths. Yozo has an affair with a waitress, but fluffs his end of their suicide pact. Scrabbling for a living as a second-rate cartoonist, he is kept, for a time, by a woman journalist. To keep himself in cheap gin, the cartoonist sinks to pornography. Toward novel's end, Yozo is even ready to make love to a monstrously crippled female druggist in return for morphine...