Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noble art of penmanship, one of the highest artistic expressions of civilized humanity, has been suffering a gradual decline over the last few thousand years. First came the adoption of a standardized alphabet by the pedantic ancients. Then there was the invention of the printing press, by the notorious Gutenberg. Finally, only ninety years ago, those three men in Milwaukee devised the infamous typewriter...
...cost a sponsor close to $3,000,000 for a 39-week season), he demands swifter omens of how his investment is faring. In 1956 sponsors dropped some 50 network programs because the ratings fell so low that, by Madison Avenue's sacrosanct formula of "cost-per-thousand," the price of reaching a given number of viewers rose correspondingly too high...
...Thousand Deaths." Almost as much as sponsor pressure, the telecasters can blame themselves for playing Frankenstein to the rating monster. It was the networks and the performers who began using the advertiser's yardstick to beat the drums of publicity, plugging ratings from whichever system made them look best and playing up rating feuds, e.g., CBS's Ed Sullivan v. NBC's Steve Allen on Sunday at 8 p.m. They made the rating seem even more potent than it really is-and believed the illusion themselves. Since NBC began trailing in the ratings, it has sensibly...
...thousand feet up in the Swiss Alps, in St. Moritz' Palace Hotel, 1,000 guests washed down a dinner of caviar and filet mignon with vintage champagne, then danced the night away until 7 in the morning. Among the merrymakers were Shipping Tycoon Stavros Niarchos, Cinemastars Linda Christian and Hildegarde Neff, Liechtenstein's Prince Constantine, Irish Beer Heir Loel Guinness. As the evening glowed to a climax, roly-poly Winston Churchill II, 16-year-old grandson of Sir Winston, leaped on a table, grabbed a cane, gaily began popping the balloons...
...creation of a special U.N. Emergency Force, the first truly international police force in history. Its scope, of course, was and still is limited; but its significance, if it succeeds in Sinai and Suez, is broad indeed. As the armed representatives of the will of the U.N., the few thousand soldiers now in Egypt's desert could become the nucleus of a permanent U.N. Police Force--a force which would be an important instrument in giving U.N. decisions the strength...