Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long talking. Correspondent Charles Mohr has had interviews of five hours at a stretch with President Diem, of two or three hours with Brother Nhu, and for this week's cover, one five-hour and one three-hour session with Mme. Nhu. The males in the family tend to lecture; Mohr found Mme. Nhu a vastly more fascinating talker. She seemed to enjoy the process, too: "You know, I have told you things I have never told anyone else." Mohr found her candor both pleasing and formidable, and the evidence is in the cover story written by Contributing Editor...
...occupational group among those covered in the study: salesmen, by far. The salesmen, as a group, showed virtually no overt prejudices, but they revealed secret prejudices against the unemployed, people with low incomes and people of Latin or Eastern European origins. The findings also indicate that, as jurors, salesmen tend to be prejudiced in favor of women...
...Women stand somewhat less chance than men of getting a fair verdict from a jury, because two large groups tend to be biased against women: 1) men earning less than $5,000 a year and 2) women...
Brotherhood President Charles Luna, 56, began his rail career as a construction helper on the Santa Fe in Texas. The word "trainmen" does not apply to a particular job; it is a generic term that covers both conductors and brakemen. In general, the members of Luna's union tend to be men with less seniority than the members of the older, more exclusive Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen...
Readers readily second Frommer's theory that luxury hotels with English-speaking staffs "and a branch of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith in the lobby" tend to insulate Americans from the very Europe they came to see. Frommer receives 1,000 testimonials each year from a list of tight-fisted correspondents that includes schoolteachers, ministers, engineers and architects. But some of the raves are qualified...