Word: barkers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rate shaving is hurting foreign lines much more than it is the U.S. merchant fleet, whose share of world commerce has long been dwindling anyway. Not surprisingly, condemnation of Soviet tactics is widespread among shipowners. In the U.S., James Barker, chairman of the Moore-McCormack Lines and head of the National Maritime Council, is livid. "In effect, the Soviets are dumping by their price cutting, while there is no serious coordinated policy in Washington," he charges. Managing Director Carl-Thomas Hubrich of the Deutsche Afrika-Linien in Hamburg laments: "We're still there, but our backs...
...glass door. I hope only that my brother will be the only person awake in the house and that all of the dogs are safely locked away in some distant catacomb. On both points I am to be disappointed. After a few taps I hear a single distant barker, soon joined by another and then another. Suddenly I see that the whole hallway is a swelling mess of howling, leaping, nadly salivating dogs. All of them seem to be at least three feet tall at the shoulder and as fat as toads. a bored and sleepy youg man, who appears...
Tall, thin, bearded Principal Edwin Barker is popular with students and community alike. "He does a good job walking the tightrope of an innovative school system and a conservative backlash," observes one parent. Says Barker: "I'm a believer in basic skills, but I want to do it in a humanitarian environment." Discipline is fairly loose. Barker downplays such issues as drugs (ditch weed, the crude local variety of marijuana, is common), discipline, smoking and leaving school without permission. "We have a lot of people coming and going," admits Barker. "Keeping them in school is not one of our high...
...continuing commitment to the world marketplace of commerce and ideas, TIME hosted 54 executives of major European advertising firms on a visit to our New York headquarters. The week included a series of seminars and informal chats with editors, writers and executives. Eric Sidler, a partner in the Charles Barker agency of Frankfurt, summed up the value of these gatherings in a discussion of international advertising styles: "The British have great humor and creativity, the Germans do terrific research, Swiss and Italian design is without peer. What U.S. advertising does best is bring everything together...
...ominous chords in the background. In the foreground our poor heroine pitiously bemoans as the barker comes to foreclose her mortgage and an Indian threatens her if she refuses to yield to his demands. Suddenly, clad like the true-blue forest ranger he is, our hero appears to save her. Sound like a scene from a silent movie anyone ever associated with it would rather forget? No, it's the storyline for Little Mary Sunshine, the operetta playing at South House this weekend...