Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OUTSIDE news hours television no longer even pretends to offer images of the real world. Nor does it offer fantasy that is moving enough to disturb you, to make you laugh or to scare you. Instead there is silly reassurance, something on the order of cake-eating people while there are food riots in the streets...
...attack on "the revanchists of Bonn" in recent issues of Pravda lends further credence to their argument. Moscow seems to be using the German menace to scare its allies back into the fold. The device may be effective, but it clearly seeks unity at the cost of greater East-West tension. Another factor that confirms Russian determination to keep its satellites in hand is the obvious unease of many of the East European states. Rumania and Yugoslavia have both been jittery and even Albania, long unfriendly to Yugoslavia, established contacts with Belgrade as Bulgarian troops massed on the Yugoslav border...
...Hoover's scare message is expected to give momentum to a congressional measure, now in conference, which would require universities to cut off federal aid to students who are disciplined for taking part in campus demonstrations. Similar demands for political purity may be fastened on to Defense Department grants which support scientific research...
...Price Scare. The industry is understandably jubilant. At a time of year when they are often backing down, automen are happily revising earlier forecasts upward. Chrysler President Virgil Boyd, in one of the year's more conservative estimates, predicts that 9.3 million car sales are pretty much a certainty. That might very well push 1968 over 1965, when the total sales, including 575,000 imports, added up to a record 9,313,912 cars...
...sales mileage from the widespread expectation that inflation and the cost of mandatory safety items will add $100 to $125 to car prices next year. In one recent newspaper ad, the "Dodge Boys" urged customers to buy now to "beat the 1969 price increase." From all accounts, the "price scare" promotion is working well...