Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate and House, by unusual unanimous votes in both houses, approved and sent to the President a conference committee's postal-rate-and-pay bill. The bill would raise salaries for most postal employees 7.5% (compared to the 6% raise Ike asked), would also provide a three-year cost-of-living raise for postal workers in lower civil service grades. To finance the increases, postal rates go up, e.g., on Aug. 1, under the bill, the cost of domestic letters would jump from 3? to 4?, domestic air mail from 6? to 7?, postcards from 2? to 3?. Second...
Lysenko, a second-rate biologist, was enthroned because his theory that environment could produce any desired result fitted in neatly with the Communist theology. Physicist Lev Landau was tossed into jail; Physicist Abram Joffe barely escaped being shot; and Geneticist N. A. Vavilov died in a slave labor camp, while his younger brother, the president of the academy, dutifully signed the documents destroying his brother's life work...
Wrapped in Conceit. The competition was the inspiration of Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Conductor John Pritchard, who feels that there are plenty of young conductors around with more talent than they can shake a stick at. Why not test them with a first-rate orchestra? He invited Cologne-born William Steinberg, conductor of both the Pittsburgh Symphony and the London Philharmonic, to help him judge a contest for musicians under 40. The pair screened 90 applicants, "weeded out all the dilettantes,'' ended with a list of 19 competitors from nine countries. Each had to prepare a repertory of twelve...
...cried Henry Griffing last fall, when his Oklahoma firm began piping new movies by TV cable into 472 Bartlesville homes for a flat subscription rate of $9.50 a month. But last week Griffing announced that he was giving up; his brand of pay TV has not paid off. Despite a slash in price to $4.95, only 800 of Bartlesville's 28,700 citizens bought-only half the number needed to make cable ends meet. The two main factors that killed telemovies in Bartlesville were competing movies on free TV and the lack of a metering device that would permit...
...calculus for meeting food costs is the College regulation that undergraduates in residence must sign up for twenty-one meals a week, to be paid for at a flat rate. This method of assessing board charges accords with neither the realities of meal attendance or any canons of elemental fairness...