Word: leading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Firming up the Star's editorial positions, the editorial writing staff emerges periodically from the ivory tower to gather firsthand information, plant ideas, and lobby for the Star's causes. Last month, alarmed about a rising traffic death rate, the Star ran a lead editorial deploring the carnage, then sent Editorial Writer James W. Scott out for earnest conferences with Police Chief Bernard Brannon and other authorities. Result: a new 36-man traffic detail and a series of frontpage editorials backing up the police department's campaign...
...career as a Confederate foragemaster; in Houston. Recent investigations have indicated that Hero Williams was only five years old when war broke out, but his fame is secure : President Eisenhower, pursuant to a July act of Congress, declared a day of national mourning, and Fourth Army units will lead a parade to Franklin, Texas, where Williams will be buried with full military honors...
...Motorola President Robert Calvin afraid of losing the U.S. lead in electronics. "The foreign competitor who has finally found out how to make a TV set will no longer find a market here, because we've already found out how-to hang one on a wall," says Galvin, whose sales are $260 million, best ever. Another sign that quality can be sold: Paris' George V Hotel stocks a claret that bears the label, "Beaulieu Vineyard, Napa Valley, Calif...
...industrial nations of continental Europe have boosted their gross national product 100% (to $212 billion) in ten years, turn out 250 million tons of coal (17% of the world total), some 65 million tons of steel (20% of the total), 1,500,000 tons of copper, zinc and lead (16% of world total). Across the English Channel, Britain's economy this year alone grew some 8% to $68.8 billion...
Woodworking Works. Disaffection with the times is the common ingredient. Predictably, the writer who has mixed the smoothest cup of brine is The New Yorker's John Cheever. With his oft-repeated visions of suburbia under a lowering sky, the author is obviously following Faulkner's lead by creating a kind of Yoknapatawpha, Conn. The fact that there are no Snopeses and not even very much crab grass in the commuters' heaven adds wry emphasis to Cheever's reiterated question. "Is this all there is?" ask his characters, who have everything. In The Country Husband...