Word: comely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to teaching at N.Y.U., Tichauer is a well-known industrial consultant with more commissions and clients (among them: Western Electric, Texas Instruments, Caterpillar Tractor) than he can possibly handle. "I'm sort of an industrial 'Dear Abby,' " he says. "They come to me only when there's a mess." One such distress call came from Western Electric in Kansas City, which was having trouble with a certain production line. Working with the staff engineers, Tichauer evolved a pair of pliers with a 30° bend in the handle. As a result of this consideration...
...been so busy since it opened last December that at least once a day the manager hangs out a sign that reads, "Closed for a few minutes because of overcrowding." When that happens, people gather on the street and gawk at the merchandise in the windows. As customers come out with their red-and-white shopping bags labeled "Beate Uhse," more stream into the store. The interior looks as antiseptic as a pharmacy. The customers, 95% of them men, browse among shelves that display everything from erotic classics (Fanny Hill and Frank Harris' My Life and Loves) to reels...
While Beate's firm makes a few of the items that it sells, most of them come from other manufacturers at home and abroad. From Beate's headquarters in Flensburg, 200 employees (70% of them women) each day mail no fewer than 13,000 orders in anonymous brown wrappers to customers in Germany and other countries. (So far, Beate has not tried to capture a share of the U.S. market.) Her book-of-the-month club has just come out with its second selection, Helga and Bernd Demonstrate 100 Love Positions. The $4.95 book is illustrated with photographs...
...endured for his beliefs, Djilas has maintained a remarkable equanimity. He harbors no burning grudge against Tito or the regime and speaks of both with dispassion and sympathy. He is scarcely a revolutionary. No man more fervently desires the demise of Communism, but he wants the death to come peacefully. He contemptuously cites Gomulka's excuse for violence: "With wolves, one must howl." Writes Djilas: "Let him do his howling. I shall not, though I have snarled and snapped with my teeth in my time. Such behavior achieves less than expected; in any case, there...
...dysentery which disqualified him for military service and thus possibly saved his life. The resulting mixture of guilt and gratitude marked Toynbee deeply. "I have always felt it strange to be alive myself," he writes, "and the longer I have gone on living since then, the stranger this has come to feel. Death seems normal to me; survival seems odd." The thought recurs in Experiences like the tolling of a bell...