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...Charles Boyer, as a brilliant professor, to unite his mighty mens sana with her massive corpore sano. She brings the same sort of ingenuous sexuality to her role as a TV robot, managing the difficult trick of being comical and at the same time alluring enough to start the Colossus of Rhodes off his blocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: The Electronic Tomato | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

Long Noses. By virtue of his position as head of this colossus, the chief executive of A.T.&T. is automatically the biggest businessman in the nation. For eight years that post has been held by a square-cut, thin-lipped man named Frederick Russell Kappel, who happens to be very much like the corporation he heads-a creature of power and paradox. Chairman Kappel (rhymes with apple) mixes freely among the mighty in science, politics and business. The 65 corporate chiefs who make up the prestigious U.S. Business Council, a group that advises the Government, have elected him their chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: The Bell Is Ringing | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...rioting and killing are over temporarily, at least, and the United States still stands astride the Panama Canal like a colossus, but the Panamanians have refused to peep about below in search of dishonorable graves. Unless a last-minute agreement intervenes, the Organization of American States will meet this afternoon to consider Panama's charge of armed agression by the United States on January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Canal at the OAS | 2/4/1964 | See Source »

Whenever an American housewife uses a detergent, an African woman buys a mammy cloth, or an Englishman pops into a fish-and-chips shop for a snack, the chances are good that the company that will profit is a corporate colossus called Unilever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Unilever's Levers | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

...blessed with a visage full of character to start with, and knows how to walk, gesture, shake his head, blink his eyes, and in general supplement his speech with telling effect. We are caught up by this colossus of a Lear, who has not yet learned that you can't eat your cake and have it too: he wants to give up the crown and at the same time hold...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Impressive 'Lear' at Stratford | 7/1/1963 | See Source »

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