Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beating the drums for a full-scale inquiry by his Senate Commerce Committee, scheduled to start in Manhattan next month, Monroney told Chicago Newscaster Len O'Connor: "Five hundred people polled out of 70 million is not a proper sample, and that is a phony way of oversimplifying the choice or prominence of television programs bought by the advertising agencies for various manufacturers. We shouldn't worship these ratings as we do ... Frankly, I don't think we can pass legislation, but I do think the public . . . is entitled to know why they are getting certain programs...
Behan's thunderous and immediate success was on the scale of another bedeviled elf, the late Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas. But unlike Thomas, who wanted both porter and her daughter, Playwright Behan has stuck to the porter; and while it goes to his head with staggering frequency, nothing else has. His complete curtain speech in London, after he had watched Quare Fellow's opening in the company of two playgoers from Scotland Yard, was a classic: "I've been under guard here. I need a drink badly. Please forgive me." Two years ago, invited to appear...
Quincy House has often been cited as a challenge to the present rent system. Unless the identical suites in Quincy, the new House, are "artificially differentiated," said Dean Watson Tuesday, establishing a rent scale on the present model would be impossible...
Moreover, dependence on large-scale donations would make the Council susceptible, in a way in which other organizations are not, to influence from groups with special interests, who might want to see certain things done or prevented within the College. Should the Council be forced to seek outside support, they should be careful to avoid any sort of external influence...
Finally, under the present system, room prices do not, in many cases, correspond to the attractiveness of the suite. Another Administration official pointed to the difficulties involved in establishing a realistic rent scale. It is very hard, he said, to judge the relative importance of size, view, location within the House, nearness to a busy street...