Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cost of the new program, which includes all hospital charges for a six-day stay, has been set at $215 for students enrolled in the Student Insurance Plan and $235 for others. Officials of the Health Services point out that this rate compares very favorably with charges for other prenatal and postpartum care plans...
...recreation palaces, an estimated 26.5 million Americans this year will pay $440 million to bowl. The entire bowling business, i.e., investments in alleys, bowling equipment and fees, will gross more than a billion dollars in 1959 for the first time. New bowlers are increasing at the rate of 12%-14% a year. The rules-making American Bowling Congress' paid membership has jumped to 3,250,000 this year from 1,500,000 five years ago, and the number of A.B.C. certified lanes in the U.S. has increased to 87,475 from...
Copying Machine. A desk-size machine that reproduces documents on ordinary instead of specially treated paper will be introduced by Haloid Xerox, Inc. early next year. Fixing dry ink permanently into paper, the Xerox 914 turns out reproductions up to 9 by 14 in. at the rate of six a minute. Rent: $95 a month...
...occasional cockfight and beers on a nearby island; for the commander, who is sure that his dreary assignment is punishment for once having run a destroyer aground, there is endless compulsive reading, mixed with lone drinking bouts. Commander Hake is an Annapolis man, in many ways a first-rate officer, but an enigma and a terror to his men, who call him "Admiral God." He is frightening at inspections, when he wears an ancient Navy cutlass. His sole link with the outside world is the erotic letters he gets from a beautiful wife. His overriding passion...
...cover. Actually, the book was neither new nor a novel. Scarcely longer than a long short story, The Last Summer was first published in Leningrad 25 years ago, some two decades before Doctor Zhivago was written. Last year, with a shorter introduction (soso) and in the same translation (first-rate), the story appeared in the U.S. in a collection of poems and articles entitled Noonday 1. It sold an unexciting 10,000 copies. With a bustling campaign of come-on ads and a first printing of 250,000, Avon hopes to do better and tap the rich Zhivago market...