Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spaces at the Business School lot are being rented at a rapid rate, according to police officials. More than 60 spaces were available last week; only a dozen of these were left yesterday. Almost all of the rented spaces are being used, reports of the night watchman indicate. In addition, streets beyond the edges of the restricted area have shown an increasing number of cars. These streets may eventually be included in the ban, officials said on Thursday...
...shows shrugged off book learning: How Do You Rate? (Mon.-Thurs., 10:30 a.m., E.S.T.) matched the sexes in frantic little contests of mental and physical dexterity (reading garbled messages, changing light bulbs); Wingo (Tues. 8:30 p.m.) hustled over low-plateau quiz questions (name the first big battle of the Civil War) to select a contestant for the show's big moment-a whack at spelling Wingo by drawing blindly from an assortment of the word's letters. Probability of hitting Wingo and winning...
...showrooms. With the push of hard selling (see Autos), sales were on the rise in March. But new-car inventories of 887,000 were so high that carmakers were not planning to step up production. Ward's Reports counted March production at 357,000 cars, predicted the same rate through the April-June quarter...
...larger shops (which carry everything from phonograph records to cute paper napkins along with reading matter) have been harassed by competition from book clubs, high prices and complaints about inefficiency. Last week brought new evidence on the situation. To promote a forthcoming book-a second-rate soulsearcher on The Way We Live Now-Little, Brown sent out about 3,000 cards inviting opinions from booksellers, reviewers, radio-and newsmen on present-day living conditions. Some of the replies dealt with life in general, but many of the answering bookstore owners and employees took the question personally, volubly commented on their...
...present literary rate of exchange, one African safari equals roughly one novel about Mau Mau trouble. Most such books shine only a feeble light into an area where burning racial hatred has obscured the underlying questions of right and wrong-or else they glare with a Ruark-like, eyewitness sensationalism. It may be a virtue of The Leopard that its author, Victor Reid, has never been in Africa...