Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This summer a film about the Six Days War became very popular in Tel Aviv. Entitled Every Bastard A King, the show included scenes of tank battles in Sinai. A young Israeli soldier who had actually fought in the battles was commenting on how realistic the battle scenes in the movie were...
...preliminary survey indicates that pass-fail students have not poured into some of the courses most popular with non-concentrators...
Empty Amnesty. To nail down what already seems a sure thing, Premier George Papadopoulos last week made a calculated bid for popular approval by announcing that some 50 political prisoners will be released six days before the referendum. Among them are two ex-Premiers: liberal George Papandreou and conservative Panayotis Kanellopoulos. The gesture seems conciliatory, but in fact is largely empty. Even if the freed opposition leaders want to fight the constitution, their access to the voters is restricted by press censorship under martial law. Nor is the government radio likely to find any time for them. The amnesty does...
...models will go up from $38 on certain Dodge Darts to $173 on the Chrysler Town & Country station wagon. Plymouth's bestselling Fury III will be priced at $3,126 (up $109), the Plymouth station wagon with V-8 engine at $3,292 (up $139), the popular Dodge Charger at $3,125 (up $85), the Road Runner at $2,974 (up $78). On the other hand, the price of the slow-selling Barracuda fastback will...
Died. Michael Carr (born Cohen), 64, a Dublin-reared Jew who wrote the music of some of the most popular Irish songs, including Did Your Mother Come from Ireland? and Everybody's Got a Touch of Irish; in London. Carr ran away to sea as a teenager, worked as a Hollywood bit player before moving to England, where he composed South of the Border and Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line...