Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unitarian, told a Congregational audience in Lexington, Mass. "It is, indeed, arrogant of churches to assume they have the right to impose the village, agricultural type of Sabbath of ancient times upon modern, urban, industrial people. Intelligent churchmen will begin today to prepare for tomorrow's three-day weekend." ¶The Christian Century showed itself unimpressed by Americans who dusted off their Bibles or boosted Bible sales as the result of a Bible-quoting grandmother's successful appearance on TV's quiz show, The $64,000 Question (TIME, July 25)."If a lipstick manufacturer thinks it worth...
Although Rojas claimed that he had clamped down on the press only because it failed to live up to its own "code of honor," Bogota newsmen noted that censorship began on the eve of the President's long-postponed weekend visit to Ecuador, repaying last year's good-will visit to Bogota by President Velasco Ibarra. Just to be on the safe side, President Rojas took with him a huge retinue of 115 Cabinet ministers and officials, including all the friends and foes of consequence who might dream of plotting behind his back. Rojas installed an Acting President...
...case of Harold Talbott. "I am going to read the complete record of everything that I can find on this myself," he said, "and I will have to make the final decision on the basis of the ethics involved." When he went to his Gettysburg farm for the weekend, he had with him the 471-page record of the Talbott hearings...
Monitor (Sat. 8 a.m. to Sun. midnight, NBC). A marathon catchall weekend show of music, news, comedy...
...fact and fiction, U.S. executives have always belonged to country clubs, and used them as much for business profit as weekend pleasure. But in today's expense-account economy, country clubs are assuming a new importance to established businessmen and young executives. With the spectacular postwar rise of golf, more and more companies are taking out country-club memberships for their men, both as a means of giving them a tax-free pay boost and as a sound business maneuver. There are few better ways for businessmen to develop new contacts, keep customers happy, sell their products and themselves...