Word: preference
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Klaxon girls, though willing to accommodate pedestrians, prefer motorists-not only because in Italy a car is an assurance of affluence, but also because, as one girl said, "you don't have to take them back where you found them." Largely self-employed, the most successful of Milan klaxoners take in as much as $160 nightly, charging about $20 for a ride to a 45-minute assignation in hotel, pension or apartment. Some, starting with a down payment on a tiny Fiat 600, have worked up to Alfa Romeos, Lancias and Fords equipped with bar, reclining seats, recorded music...
Because one builds an "eye-catching" school this doesn't completely satisfy the prerequisites of a sound education. As long as finance committees and American towns prefer to squander their money on architects and contractors, they can expect teachers to remain underpaid, books to be second rate, and their children to continue to get the mediocre education that Hutchins, Adler and Rickover have been lamenting for years...
...doctors suspect that exposure to polluted air over a period of years, like habitual cigarette smoking, probably produces serious pulmonary disease. But, explains Dr. Walsh McDermott of Cornell University Medical College, the kind of long-term study needed to prove this hypothesis is "not particularly fashionable" among scientists who prefer to delve into more dramatic fields of research. The extent of the menace is undetermined, but it nevertheless exists. Says Dr. McDermott: "We can continue to breathe what is very probably toxic air on the premise that it is an unavoidable byproduct of our wonderful society and that, on balance...
...Prefer to Crawl." In a second, long, made-in-Moscow statement, they attacked the "Eisenhower-Nixon Adminis tration," accused the U.S. of spying on its allies and deliberately violating the airspace of other nations. They spilled all they apparently knew about the code-cracking and cryptographic activities of the National Security Agency. They highlighted the whole performance by quoting Arizona's Red-hating Senator Barry Goldwater's warning that "there are among us those who would prefer to crawl to Moscow on their bellies rather than face the possibility of an atomic war." Said Mitchell-Martin...
...comes from foreign markets, Hollywood has learned to display two faces of Eve, and a little more besides. As a frequent but not general practice, certain scenes in U.S. films are shot twice-vividly for export and vapidly for American distribution. (Sometimes they are merely cut.) Producers and directors prefer to deny the habit. Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association, says that "no one has ever been able to cite a specific film. As far as I know, they go abroad the way they are shown here." Nonetheless, there is such a thing in Hollywood films...