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...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Unable to face the pressures and pleasures of a normal world, a band of hermits holes up in a department store-hiding by day, emerging by night. Based on John Collier's short story, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, "Evening Primrose" stars Anthony Perkins, Dorothy Stickney, Charmian Carr and Larry Gates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 18, 1966 | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...This is a 20% market," says lohn Zeisler, a Chicago broker. "One out of every five stocks is still going up." Along with the onics, there are other swinging investment areas. One is education, where a teaching revolution in methods and televised or computerized machinery is under way. Crowell-Collier has risen from 45½ to 51?, McGraw-Hill from 66¼ to 69, while shares of IBM, counting a three-for-two split and a new issue in May, have increased in value 5.1%. Recreation is big on Wall Street. And Polaroid, which has gone from 130¼ to 171½ since February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: Wall Street: A Long Look Upward | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

Died. Maxfield Parrish, 95, Quaker-born dean of U.S. illustrators, whose diaphanous damsels, Homeric heroes, devilish dwarfs and capering clowns enlivened magazine covers (Collier's, Harper's Weekly), made dull books popular, and helped turn Jell-O and Fisk tires into bestsellers by virtue of their ads; of chronic lung disease; in Plainfield, N.H. In 1964, with a retrospective show in Manhattan, Parrish was hailed as a precursor of pop art, and responded by saying: "How can these avant-garde people get anything out of me? I'm so hopelessly commonplace." Probably his most lasting single work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 8, 1966 | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...weeks ago, Hagel made another foray into what he describes as the field of "lifetime continuing education." For about $5,000,000, Crowell Collier bought the famed Berlitz Schools of Languages, and Berlitz Publications, Inc. Berlitz, which offers courses in 46 languages, is the innovator of a "total immersion" teaching technique that drowns a student with 13 hours a day of lessons, even at mealtimes. American firms are sending more and more of their men to Berlitz before sending them overseas, and now provide 40% of the firm's business, which last year amounted to a tidy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishing: Profits in Continuing Education | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

...Crowell Collier, which hardly need worry about next Christmas, Hagel predicts more additions to the "continuing education" group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishing: Profits in Continuing Education | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

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