Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE are many definitions of news, and none of them totally satisfactory. But in practice, news is apt to be what an editor thinks his readers will be interested in, out of all that is going on. For some editors this means serving up mostly politics, sports, crime and a smattering of foreign troubles. TIME has spent its 40 years trying to widen the definition of what's interesting, and is pleased to find other editors now reporting the news in science, medicine, religion and education that was once so widely ignored. The more others do it. the more...
...hilly Hong Kong, prestige is often a function of height: the socially elect live on "the Peak." and down below, in the central business district, a company's importance is apt to be judged by how tall its headquarters building is. Latest entrant in Hong Kong's corporate prestige race is the Hang Seng (Eternal Growth) Bank, which last week opened a 22-story building that is even taller than the Peking-controlled Bank of China-which was deliberately built a few feet higher than the British-run Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank. Resplendent with Venetian mosaics and bulletproof...
...this might have made an apt subject for contemplative derision had it not been for a solidly built man standing on a rock above the scene, wearing pale brown prescription glasses, a white lumber jacket, and a cowboy hat over hair that flew straight back like porcupine quills. This was George Stevens, beyond question the most respected and probably the most able director in the American film industry, whose reputation was assured by movies like A Place in the Sun and The Diary of Anne Frank. He is now risking it by betting that he can tell The Greatest Story...
...Hokey Pokey Cotton Candy machine is a battery-operated, 16-in. miniature of the ones at the circus, is apt to get hands even stickier. Hasbro; $14-95. > Games are getting down to business, and Square Mile is an exercise in land development for future Zeckendorfs. Taking up where Monopoly left off, Square Mile plants industrial parks, housing developments and shopping centers amid forests and swamps with a singleness of purpose designed to make Secretary Udall quake in his hiking shoes. Milton Bradley...
...public, Clive T. Miller '59 is apt to be rather offhand about his first novel, This Passing Night, which has just been published. At a reading he gave at Lowell House last week, he described the book as "two separate story lines, one that follows a group of students that have graduated from Harvard, and one that follows a teen-age gang in Brooklyn. The Harvard line takes place in Cambridge and Europe and has all the romantic stuff; the gang line has all the rapes and dirty stuff. Each chapter in the book is a sort of separate short...