Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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University of Michigan Sociologist John P. Robinson, 31, told the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco last week that a lengthy survey indicates that leisure time takes up about five hours a day, about the same portion of the day as in the 1930s, and that television now accounts for about a third...
...hard-pressed American house wife may already have suspected the outcome of Robinson's research into the laborsaving qualities of clothes washers, dishwashers, and other automatic devices at home. "The expectation that time on housework would decrease with the advent of more household appliances is not supported by the data," he says dryly...
WALTER A. ROBINSON Geneva, Switzerland...
...Capone has a compelling fascination for actors. Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger and Paul Muni have all had their shots at Scarface. Now it is Jason Robards' turn...
...commercially during World War I. In 1929, in Paris, he opened a plant named Danone for his son Daniel, and called its product "the Dessert of Happy Digestion." Success was modest until the mid-1950s, when Danone caught the public fancy. In 1958, in the Paris suburb of Plessis-Robinson, Danone opened the world's largest yogurt factory, where 350 workers are able to turn out 1,600,000 pots (211,000 quarts) of yogurt a day, seven times as much as the largest U.S. manufacturer...