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...Kill the messenger" is what the surly viewer thinks after being subjected to this latest and surely last edition of Bad News. Though what this means is unclear: Kill Tony Curtis, the wretched main character? Kill John Berry, the chartless director? Kill the theater projectionist? A few years ago, there was a cheerful film called The Bad News Bears, about an endearingly inept kiddy baseball team. It starred the endearingly ept child star Tatum O'Neal...
Although the terms are sometimes interesting and useful they have the effect of turning life into a kind kind of chartless supervoid. Perhaps the real problem is that too many sociologists and other thinkers have grown postarticulate...
...hottest cargo that any ship can carry these days is oil bound for Rhodesia. Two tankers that tried to make that run became lost last week on the chartless sea of international diplomacy. Under the shadow of a United Nations resolution permitting the British to use "force" to preserve their oil embargo of Rhodesia (TIME, April 15), the Ioanna V finally docked in the Portuguese port of Beira, terminus of an oil pipeline to Rhodesia. There, separated from the end of the pipeline by only 30 ft., it waited. Several hundred miles to the south its sister ship Manuela...
...tinkerer who founded the world's biggest photographic supplier, pioneered a paternalistic system of employee bonuses and pensions, and built dozens of schools, hospitals and dental clinics. Another is research. Kodak assiduously collects Ph.D.s (more than 500 are on its staff), and lets them wade fearlessly into the chartless seas of pure research. The third is profits: the company's have tripled in the past decade, and so have its dividends...
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