Word: trends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro Vote: In 1952 the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket polled 21% of the Negro vote, in 1956 upped the figure to an astonishing 39%. But lest the G.O.P. start kidding itself about an irreversible trend, Gallup reported that Negroes generally used the word "Eisenhower" when they liked what the party did, used the word "Republicans" when they damned...
Hailing the new trend, half a dozen U.S. museums this year are featuring their newly acquired Monet paintings. Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has hung a show of its whole collection of 33 Monet oils to honor its recently purchased, nonimpres-sionist La Japonaise (see overleaf), Monet's genuine tribute to Japanese art, for which his first wife, Camille, posed. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is showing its third late-Monet purchase, Pond and Covered Bridge (opposite). In April the Art Institute of Chicago will celebrate its newly purchased Iris at the Side...
...still woefully low, the rise has made it possible to treat more patients rather than just maintain them. With the impact of the tranquilizer drugs to help, many top state mental hospitals last year were discharging from 65% to 80% of first admissions. The committee's forecast: the trend will continue...
...cameras televised Presley exclusively above the belt, so that only the shrill of studio fans signaled the action below. Sullivan won a Trendex rating of 46.2, his highest yet. For Presley-haters there was little comfort but the wishful hope that by showing no pelvis, Sullivan had started a trend that would lead to showing no Elvis...
When he had finished talking foreign policy with congressional leaders last week, President Eisenhower turned to a domestic topic that is very much on his mind. Said he: "Inflation is a great hazard. There will be pressures on you in Congress to increase spending. Congress must resist this trend. It is up to Congress to hold the line just as it is our responsibility here...