Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...dignified retreat. When Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler castigated Johnson for being too cautious and conservative, the Senate Democrats rose up, almost to a man, to defend Johnson, and gave Butler the retort proper: mind your own business. As a good legislator, Johnson believes in taking a fatherly interest in the political and personal welfare of every one of his Democratic colleagues. If a fellow Senator is sick, Johnson demands a daily report-three or more a day, if the illness is serious. He rolls out the welcome wagon for every freshman Senator, works hard to maneuver the most promising...
...oftener than it squeals hello. In the same way, because a whole rock-'n'-roll call of teen-agers are often banished between aahs, or missing between oohs, they do not grow oppressive. If Dick Van Dyke and Chita Rivera, as the love interest, never quite make love interesting, they often brighten it with glints of hate and vary it with an amusing roadblock to the altar-Dick's mother. Zestfully played by Kay Medford, she is a murderously possessive mamma forever jabbering of self-sacrifice, threatening suicide and pleading for a minimum in funerals: "Just wait...
...even as they are fighting, the networks are facing up to the probability that they will lose. In a statement implying that pay TV would corrupt the public interest for selfish purposes, CBS President Frank Stanton has nevertheless assured stockholders that if the worst happened, CBS is prepared to take the pay way too. And the trade nurtures the rumor that NBC has a toll system in the works. "If the pay system develops," said President Sarnoff early this year, "free television, as we know it, would face disintegration, and we would have no alternative but to join the coin...
...known. "There are two ways you can make an impact on people," he explained. "Either give them a million dollars or spit in their faces. I can't give them a million, and I don't want to spit in anyone's face. But I can interest them, and that is what I'm trying to do in my ads." Paepcke had hit upon the idea of illustrating the "Great Ideas of Western Man" in a series of ads painted by top artists. It was a gallery open to millions-and millions came to know...
...point on the 1947-49 index to 165, and a point on the Federal Reserve Board's new index, from 110 to 109. But against this could be set another indicator suggesting a pickup in business. Reversing a downward spiral that started in early March, the average interest rate on the Treasury's issue of $1.1 billion in 91-day bills jumped by nearly a point to 3.622%, indicating that money is once again tightening up as business rolls forward...