Word: sober
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clipping them studiously and reprinting the richest gleanings-carefully translated, buoyed by notes and comment. Now, with 18 issues of her monthly Atlas off the press. Publisher Eleanor Davidson Wor-ley's plan has proved to be as sound as it was evident. Atlas has already passed such sober sisters as the Nation (circ.25,103) and the New Republic (40,278) with 42,000 subscribers; in the process it has earned a firm reputation f or substantial, thoughtful monitoring of the world's press...
...sober tones befitting his position as a corporation president, bongo-bopping Producer Desi Arnaz, 45, told the 75 stockholders that Desilu Productions Inc. netted $611,921 from such TV productions as The Untouchables and Ben Casey last year and aims for $1,000,000 in fiscal 1963. On the president's left, looking like a rainbow in red hair, green slacks, yellow blouse, white loafers, sat Lucille Ball, 51. his exwife, a major stockholder and $25,000-a-year vice president. Grinned Desi introducing Lawyer Milton Rudin: "He was so good representing Mrs. Arnaz in our divorce, I thought...
Merciful Silence. Under DiMaggio's hand, the funeral was sober, orderly and brief. But even burial did not bring the long wake to an end. The temptation of mystery was too strong to ignore, and gossipists busied themselves with its narrow questions. Mexican Film Writer Jose Bolanos was suggested as Marilyn's tragic Lothario, and a friend in Mexico City announced breathlessly that Marilyn and he had intended to marry in September. Writers even troubled themselves with the identity of the anonymous mourner who sent $50 worth of roses to the funeral-together with a love sonnet from...
Contemporary Humanism is catching on. Last week, at the Third Congress of the International Humanist and Ethical Union in Oslo. 400 sober-minded Humanists were on hand, representing more than 300,000 of their fellow believers in 24 countries. Although West Germany subsidizes some Humanist organizations, and The Netherlands allows them to have their own army chaplains, Humanist societies are generally denied the recognition that governments accord to religious groups. But what they lack in privilege, the Humanists make up in prestige: the ranks of the American Humanist Association are heavy with scientists and intellectuals, and the international union boasts...
...though they are down a shade from April's record $19.6 billion. The Federal Reserve Board's latest survey of consumer buying intentions concludes that spending by the public is beginning to level off. Says University of Michigan Economist George Katona: "The consumer's mood is sober because of three persistent concerns: the recurrence of recession, the relatively high unemployment, and the cold...