Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modern jets are so powerful that most of them can fly with just about all the passengers and baggage that can be crowded into them. The current trend is to take advantage of this load-carrying ability with "high density" seating. To cut back on that might cause a rise in fares; it might also mean a rise in safety. Though all the passengers survived the crack-up of a United 727 at Salt Lake City, 42 died in the fire because they could not break through the crowded aisles to the few escape hatches. Criticizing what he calls "sardine...
...this house cleaning should not delude viewers with the notion that better shows are necessarily in store for next season. "The trend and the entire mass appetite," explains CBS Programming Chief Mike Dann, "is toward larger-than-life drama. Anything true, about real people and real problems, is out." Thus, the 1966-67 batch of shows will include more situation come dies, more science-fiction shows, more spy and spy-spoof serials-all, in short, about untrue, unreal people...
This could be a trend. Maybe imperceptibly, Napoleon and his sidekick Illya Kuriyakin will dump U.N.C.L.E., join with Thrush, and come up with a new show, I Defect. Hard to believe...
...every State of the Union, American Citizens are entitled at age 21 to vote for the President of the United States. Why should greater wisdom or longevity be required to vote for Overseers of Harvard College? The trend in several states has been to lower the voting age below age 21, in part on the reasonable theory that if citizens can be drafted into the Army or other Armed Services at 18, they should be permitted to vote for the officials and on the issues relating to their lives...
Following this trend, Jersey Standard last week was deep in plans to transfer control of European operations this fall to a brand-new subsidiary called Esso Europe, to be based in London. Esso Europe will oversee a 14-nation area that already sells more oil and gas than Jersey does in the U.S., and where sales are rising three times as fast...