Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hopefully helped to make more dramatic and public the fact that not all the recently accumulated evidence connecting cigarettes and cancer has been wasted, that its influence continues to be possible. The same sort of thinking that earlier in this century emancipated cigarette smokers from the stigma of immorality ought now to show them that their habit is almost certainly dangerous...
Removal of the disclaimer affidavit from the National Defense Education Act by Congress yesterday at last removes the stigma of special suspicion from students and scientists on whom the requirement was imposed. Recipients of NDEA loans and National Science Foundation fellowships were required to swear that they had no memberships in subversive organizations. The new law, finally approved by voice vote in the House yesterday, instead provides for criminal prosecution of subversives who accept the Federal funds...
...Angeles has been struggling for years against smog and a stigma of cultural inferiority. Only the smog remains. As a vote of confidence, Producer David Merrick will launch the long-awaited British musical Oliver at the Philharmonic Auditorium in August. And this year Playbill, which prints all Broadway programs, started a Los Angeles edition...
...neighboring Hungary, Poland or East Germany, Czechoslovakia has few outspoken malcontents and no likelihood of an uprising. The party, in return, is more lenient; the Czechs are allowed a relative cultural freedom. Western books sell briskly; J. D. Salinger is currently a favorite. Western films can be seen without stigma. In Prague, Designer Zdenka Bauer. 27, showed a collection of attractive dresses, suits and beachwear that were "an effort to follow Paris lines but adapt them to Czech fabrics...
...Latin Americans still use Grace-made sugar, wear clothing made from Grace textiles, and fly on planes of Panagra Airways (jointly owned with Pan American). By taking an active role in the community life-but not the politics-of the nations where it operates, Grace has largely overcome the stigma of "Yankee imperialism" and is so little concerned about expropriation that it plans to spend $5,000,000 this year expanding its Latin American operations. Even in its traditional stamping ground, however, the company's new look is evident. Already Grace has chemical plants producing in six Latin countries...