Word: supers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Front. Last week, aware of their own party's unpopularity in the country, the worried Reds set up a super-Popular Front, the "People's Patriotic Front," and summoned 2,000 leading Hungarians, regardless of party, to Budapest for a two-day meeting. The meeting convened in a hall filled not with Red flags but with the red, white and green Hungarian national flag, and led off not with the singing of the Internationale but with the igth century anthem which begins, "God bless the Hungarian people...
Superspeed Film. Eastman Kodak Co. put on sale a new roll film in 35-mm., 620 and 120 sizes that is twice as fast as Kodak's Super-XX. The new TriX film will take indoor snapshots with ordinary light, night sports events without flash. Price: same as Kodak's Super...
...tampering with Senate elections is risky, a Senator commits suicide by defying committees. Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham in 1928 incensed both sides of the Senate by listing a highly paid official of the Connecticut Manufacturer's Association as his clerk, and then dragging him to super-secret caucuses of Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee. Over sixty percent of the Senate voted a censure against Bingham for conduct "contrary to good morals and senatorial ethics...
...David Riesman's brilliant account of evolution of mankind into "other-directeds" [TIME, Sept. 27] is perhaps the reason and cause for the super-mediocrity of most people, most jobs, most professions, even most autonomous...
Later on, he ad-libbed another story about the operator of a chain of filling stations who tried to check up on his employees by driving up in his car incognito. He was astonished at the super service he always got until one day, lifting his car's hood, he saw a note attached to the motor: "Be careful what you do or say. This s.o.b. is president of the company...