Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.).* Arthur Hill, Barbara Bel Geddes and Barry Nelson star in Secrets, Tad Mosel's original drama about an accountant who refuses to account to his family or friends for his increasingly odd behavior...
...venerable Vienna State Opera is a post of sacred national trust. Its incumbent inherits Vienna's 300-year operatic tradition, directing one of the longest and best-quality seasons in the world. In return, he may receive up to $30,000 a year, plus a liberal expense account, an apartment, a chauffeur-driven car and the run of Vienna's famed Sacher Hotel-free room, meals and entertaining. With the job vacant since the death four months ago of Director Egon Hilbert, it might be thought that opera administrators and conductors the world over would be clamoring...
...dock strike, and by steel stockpiling as a hedge against a possible steel strike in August. While the outlook for the year as a whole is by no means so dismal-Washington has all but abandoned hope of reaching President Johnson's goal of fattening the U.S. trade account by $500 million in 1968. Says a top Commerce Department official: "We'll be lucky if we can hold the '67 surplus...
...reason is that the 625 largest U.S. companies account for more than half of the nation's industrial exports. To encourage smaller firms to hunt for overseas business, the Commerce Department has been revving up official trade missions. Last week some 40 U.S. executives hustled to Sydney and Melbourne with the help of Pan American to search for orders for everything from automatic controls to waste-disposal systems. "We can't sit on our duffs and wait for this business to come to us," said Chairman John R. Kimberly of papermaking Kimberly-Clark. Such efforts...
Buoyant Bending. Since the work had ample exposure in Harper's magazine and Commentary, it is widely known by now that this is Mailer's attempt to build a Washington monument by providing a step-by-step account of what in the present perspective seems like a decidedly minor news event: the peace march and militant demonstration in Washington last October. Mailer does indeed cover all the accepted journalistic steps, from the ceremonial handing-in of draft cards at the Department of Justice to the activists' vain roughhouse attempts to storm the Pentagon...