Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best hope for solution to the seven-week-old steel strike lies in the natural pressure of economic forces on the parties involved. But when-and where-will those forces reach impasse-breaking strength? Last week, slowly but inexorably, they began to rise on all sides, starting a steady acceleration that should reach a climax in early October. By then, if the nation's basic industry is still-shuttered up, the alternative to a settlement will be real trouble for the U.S. economy. The key forces...
...racing 160% ahead of last year, are expected to top 15,000 cars by year's end. With 54% of its production going to 136 countries, Daimler-Benz has hiked worldwide sales 16% this year, expects to run up a 1959 sales figure of $600 million for the best year in its history...
...will bring out a "hear-see" stereo-TV attachment that will run video tapes, e.g., Hamlet, on regular TV sets, bring ex-Teacher Burns closer to his highest goal: teaching by TV. He wants all the nation's schools linked in one grand educational network, starring the best U.S. teachers, who would be paid as much as Burns himself ($170,000). For the blue-sky future, Burns is pushing the development of simple "thermoelectric"' air conditioners with no moving parts, space vehicles. TV systems that will peer to the stars...
Just what this Gothic hoedown signifies is anybody's guess. Best bet is that Bergman intends it as a kind of spiritual autobiography, identifies himself both with the masked magician and the drunken actor, who dies with his battered top hat on, raving: "I always longed for a knife to free me ... Then what we call the spirit would rise up from the meaningless carcass." Cinemagician Bergman seems to see both men as despairing artists whose creative imaginations doom them to social obloquy and the distrust and disdain of hardheaded authority. What scant optimism there is in this fatalistic...
...published last month: a murky outpouring called Second April ("O man, thee is onion-constructed in hot gabardine"), by a scraggly bard named Bob Kaufman-2,500 copies already in print. Why the popularity? The beat blather certainly is not literature. But it can be amusing, and at its best, more fun to recite in the bathtub than anything since Vachel Lindsay's The Congo. Sample from Bomb (4,000 copies in print), by Gregory Corso, 28, a curly-haired youngster whose earlier Gasoline (95?) has gone into three printings, 6,000 copies...