Word: trends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Collins. But Herlihy says: "Sponsors have found that the average woman listener would rather get her information from a man. Women will watch Betty Furness selling a refrigerator, but what they're thinking is 'I wonder where Betty got that dress.' " One new fashion is a trend toward such mature, grave, slow-spoken types as Longine's Frank Knight, the sort of men, explains CBS's Sirmons, who look like family doctors, lawyers or bankers...
...deterrents, like containment, are negative and defensive. Taft, again standing with Dulles, called for positive measures to "ultimately defeat Communism." Among his suggestions: trend toward totalitarian government." Then, "we can set out again on a crusade and spread the doctrine of individual liberty throughout the world...
...Angeles, TV Editor Frank Orme made his second annual survey of TV crime shows, found that in a single week television showed 167 murders, 112 justifiable homicides and 356 attempted murders, and that two-thirds of all this violence was in children's shows. Following the national trend, Orme reported, TV crime was up 15% over last year...
...Denounced the widespread use of loyalty oaths and antisubversive measures as "denials of human rights" and an "unmistakable trend towards authoritarianism and thought control," but, in a last-minute resolution, praised congressional committees and other Government agencies that are maintaining "fundamental American liberties [and protecting] us and all our citizens from spies...
...Sales Trend. In Los Angeles, Albert Zubrinski's chain market was robbed of $900 by holdup men who grumbled, "Business must be bad," was robbed of $4,650 a week later by the same men who commented, "Business is picking...