Word: etc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHEN TIME began, 38 years ago, we introduced new ways of telling the news-such as dividing it into subjects and using a narrative style, etc. We've been imitated so much since then that what was once novelty is now standard. That's O.K. with us. But one of the other basic TIME innovations was a concern with matters we thought to be important news, but which most newspapers and magazines left to the small, specialized journals to cover. Instead of accenting violence, politics and sports (which most papers concentrated on), TIME widened its horizons to include...
...true we try to interest football players in Harvard, provided they qualify in general as satisfactory Harvard prospects. We also go after out-standing boys who do all sorts of other things--debaters, musicians, etc. It is a fact (not a speculation) that we lose many football players because we won't offer them a lot of extra financial in centive. Are we so poor? No--Harvard gives more financial aid annually than any other college. We merely refuse to set the athlete on a special financial pedestal. To equate our normal search for talent of all sorts with...
...have risen virtually continuously; yet "the U.S. has not suffered particularly severely from inflation." The Puritans, on the other hand, argue that U.S. consumer wants are sated and that the only hope of reviving demand "is through the advertising agencies-discovery of new gimmicks, creating new wants, fostering obsolescence, etc." (But some Puritans, McMahon adds wryly, "primly reject this lifeline, preferring, like Professor Galbraith, no growth at all to being dragged up by the hucksters...
...still a rather "live" room, but one which is infinitely comfortable to listen in. Most listening is done at a distance of fifteen to twenty feet from the speakers. This seems to add to the illusion of live performance, since imperfections such as surface noise, tape hiss, static, etc., are blended into the atmosphere. None of this would have been possible in an area smaller than his huge basement...
...sources. Nothing could be further from the truth. His Scott 310-D tuner (one of the most sensitive FM sets ever made) in conjunction with Scott's multiplex adapter, provides the household with music most of every day and particularly on occasions such as parties, dinners, etc. On the Humphrey roof it an eight-element yagi antenna, mute testimony to his interest in long distance FM reception...