Word: segments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disaffection among high army officers has plagued Aramburu ever since he came to power a year ago. Most ominously, a segment of ultranationalistic top officers, scoffing at Aramburu's ban on military candidacies, has been cheering on a dissident, unassigned general named LeÓn Bengoa as a prospect for presidential elections late next year. The mass firings gave this group a brief surge of hope: Bengoa and some cronies quickly tried to touch off an army uprising...
...door-to-door polling reached about half of the precinct's voters and covered every street. This middle-class precinct has mostly small, one-family homes, with a few two-family dwellings. It has a stable population, including many city and state employes. There is a large Irish segment, and many, even Eisenhower supporters, describe themselves as Democrats. It has not been redistricted within the last eight years...
Teleplaywright Serling, 31, an ex-amateur boxer himself. He did not intend, he says, for Requiem simply to daub tar and feathers on the fight game-"I tried to dramatize the rejection of a human being by a segment of society. It could have been played out against any background at all." One of the medium's most prolific authors (ico-odd plays), Serling is serving TV (at a record $7,500 a script) some of the most tightly constructed, trenchant lines it has yet spoken. "I love TV," he confesses, "but writing is mostly just fighting discouragement. Sponsor...
...believe that decision to be right. Some of you feel strongly to the contrary...." This statement was no doubt aimed as much at Northern newspaper readers as at the Arkansans who happened to be present. But, meanwhile, its successful reception suggested that the Southerners, or at least a large segment of them, might well respond nationally to honesty and a little grit...
...After analyzing the effect of simultaneous telecasting on all networks, the G.O.P. high command concluded last week that there must be a large segment of U.S. viewers who by now are surfeited with "saturation" campaigning. Result: President Eisenhower's major campaign speeches will hereafter be seen and heard on only one network at a time...