Word: equalizers
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...transition period equal in magnitude to the change from pre-civilization to civilization. We are experiencing the end of civilization and an evolution to a new, scientifically-oriented post-civilization," Kenneth E. Boulding, professor of Economics at the University of Michigan, declared yesterday in a talk at Littauer...
...Senator Karl Mundt, a Republican who has long dreamed of uniting Northern and Southern conservatives in a single political party, leads a campaign to bring the presidential election somewhat closer to a proportional vote than it is now. He would divide each state into electoral districts, each nearly equal in population, have the voters in each district choose one elector, plus two "at large'' electors to be selected statewide. Under such a system, says Mundt, "the present inordinate power of organized pressure groups in the big-city states would be reduced to proper proportions...
Named for the late Chicago Tribune Publisher and Chicago Booster Colonel Robert McCormick, the new two-floor convention hall can feed 25,000 banqueters, boasts exhibition space equal in size to six football fields. Its central location and modern facilities practically guarantee that Chicago, with its 931 conventions a year (and 1,155,000 visitors), can better even this year's $250 million convention business and maintain its position as the nation's No. 1 convention city...
...With equal effect, she dips into her own experience to make points. "One of America's leading dermatologists simplified my life and slashed my personal budget a few months ago," she confided in a column last September. In the chatty paragraph that followed, Sylvia admitted a feminine partiality for expensive face creams ("I won't confess to myself, much less to you, what I was spending"), but said she had given them up when a skin specialist assured her that nothing, but nothing, beats common soap. This little white lie (in private fact, she still dabs on assorted...
Sometimes her crystal ball is as cloudy as anyone else's-together with most forecasters, she missed the 1960 steel picture, for example, inaccurately predicted record profits. But Sylvia has no equal at reducing vital but complex subjects, such as the Federal Reserve System, to manageable size. She is sometimes miles ahead of the competition in spotting trends: she was one of the first to see the business recession of 1958, made a splash by spotting the travail of Miami's resort-hotel business...