Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jacqueline Kennedy, America's greatest fringe benefit...
BALLAD OF A SOLDIER. The best Russian movie since World War II: Director Grigori Chukhrai's tender, sentimental, humorous, passionate, imaginative story of love without benefit of Lenin in a Russia without time for love...
...enough to make a penguin take to the bottle; but Gleason, dieting, munched his Ry-Krisp without benefit of sauce. Although he can, as Susskind says, "put away more Scotch per square hour than any man alive," he rarely drinks on the job. The Gleason legend has much to float on, but he proudly insists that he has never missed a show because of drinking. "I'm a heavy drinker when I drink," Gleason generalizes, "because I can put away a bundle of booze before the lights go out. I like it. Some people like to climb mountains...
Paradoxically, all the hard work is easier than it looks. "The students are no brighter," says veteran French Teacher Lawrence Garrett of Denver's East High School. "They have the benefit of better guidance, testing and prodding." New "discovery" approaches in math, physics and chemistry, for example, make learning more alluring. TV has apparently boosted vocabularies and widened horizons. Cheap paperbacks have put poets and philosophers in any hip pocket. Along with language labs that make drill palatable go new courses in the techniques of studying. "They have learned how to read rapidly, how to summarize...
Always Prepared. Many of the electrical companies began to anticipate the damage suits during the original antitrust trial by pleading "no contest" to the price-fixing charge-a move that kept details of the alleged conspiracy off the court record. Now, without benefit of those details, the suing utilities face the task of proving that over the years the prices of electrical equipment would have been lower had there been no conspiracy. Says one antitrust lawyer: "You have to compare what you paid with what you would have paid under conditions that didn't exist." To do this, some...