Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet, almost as chilly as the Finns who looked Khrushchev over in Helsinki last June. As the inevitable flaxen-haired girls skipped forward with their whopping bouquets, little groups here and there tried to spark pro-Soviet chants, but their efforts fell flat. Hastily, a band struck up a tune, the old nationalist Prussian Glory march. As Khrushchev finally launched into a speech, a husky Negro, resplendent in billowing orange tribal robes, burst through police lines, capered up to the platform and reached out at him. Kicked and pummeled back into the crowd by the horrified Ulbricht's cops...
Elusive Harmony. In San Jose, Calif., Clement Lopez, after slugging his partner in a midnight duet and fracturing his skull, explained: "He was singing out of tune...
...July 22 story "Self-Defeat" points up the ability of Nielsen Television Index to provide much more comprehensive measurement of TV audiences than mere "ratings." While it is true that there is some interplay of audience between the Ed Sullivan and Steve Allen programs, our research has shown that tune-outs are not excessive. We checked minute-by-minute viewing against the commercial placement for the night on which the particular study was made, and found no significant changes in levels of viewing at the times the commercials were presented. Therefore, your "sponsor-sobering conclusion, i.e., viewers are not looking...
...floor of the House. "Disgraceful!" roared his fellow Floridian, Representative Robert Sikes. The Congressmen echoed the outrage of the Stephen Foster Memorial Commission of Florida (state song: Swanee River) on learning that the nation's TV and radio networks have put Foster's lyrics in tune with the race-conscious times by banning such words as "darkies," "mammy" and "massa." From Tallahassee, Governor LeRoy Collins cracked: "Let's not put the whammy on mammy." On the other hand, the networks' practice was defended as "good taste" by prominent Negroes, whose pressures helped produce...
...industry finally got a lower court verdict on suits brought against three of its big gest companies by the Government. The defendants: Jersey Standard, Socony-Mobil, Caltex (owned jointly by the Texas Co. and Standard of California) and six subsidiaries. The charge: price-gouging to the tune of $111.5 million on Middle East oil supplied to Europe under Marshall Plan financing. Between 1949 and 1952, the Government charged, the companies sold oil to the Economic Cooperation Administration...