Word: abreast
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This kind of momentum is probably what it takes to stay abreast of a business world whose unpredictability and changes Sylvia Porter understands as well as any observer. Her whole philosophy, in fact, is based on momentum. "There are two ways of looking at today's economic society," she says. "One is to preserve what you have. The other is to say, 'This won't do at all.' In recent years, we've only been protecting. You can't have a dynamic society and sit. We are supposed to have a competitive system...
...names as Yvette of the Opel, Rossana of the Dauphine, Maria of the Appia, discreetly toot horns and flash headlights to attract the prospect's attention. In a favorite gambit, pairs of klaxon girls pull right alongside male motorists; the one at the wheel keeps the car just abreast, the other casually unbuttons her blouse. Blonde "Insurance Nadia," on the other hand, got her name by her habit of gently jostling a male driver's rear bumper, then sidling out to coo that her insurance company will pay damages, if any-and making her proposition...
Brockman, Mullin and Fitzgerald were running abreast after a mile, but by the two-mile post Fitzgerald had dropped back to fifth. With the race about half over, Mullin led Brockman by a few steps, with Fitzgerald still fifth and Hamlin in sixth place...
...School, has fired an artistic rebirth with new schools of sacred art, Afro-Asian studies and theater. Argentine Artist Carybe, who painted the mural in American Airlines' Idlewild terminal (TIME, Aug. 15), has settled in Salvador; Genaro de Carvalho, a leading maker of modern tapestries, lives there. Keeping abreast of the trend, the Catholic Church is pushing completion of its university, with colleges in law, medicine and philosophy already functioning...
Queued up six or eight abreast at entrances to the visitors' galleries, crowds jammed into the Capitol to witness U.S. history's first confrontation of two presidential nominees on the Senate floor...