Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eras in which life was a cruel trial of disease and despair, there was deep comfort in the dream of heaven as God's good-conduct reward. Now that man has more and more conquered nature, eternity has become more and more distant. "A certain satisfaction with this world has replaced the aspiration for heaven," says Italy's Roman Catholic Philosopher Ettore Albino. "A consumer society gives man happiness even if it is superficial. Nobody wants to hear of hell...
...beetle, which has not changed much since it first began bugging the roads after World War II? West German Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss thinks so - and in a recent speech he warned that VW had better begin to produce a car more attuned to contemporary demands for "performance, comfort and safety...
...taxes on gasoline and new cars, higher tax deductions for commuting by car, and government authorization of reduced auto-insurance premiums. Strauss has other ideas: "It had better consider which market is still particularly receptive to its product in the light of the increased demands of Western Europeans for comfort...
Editor's Protest. For the moment, the King and his subjects were stuck with the junta. When an earthquake leveled villages in the Pindus Mountains, some 150 miles north of Athens, King Constantine flew there to comfort the 16,000 homeless people-accompanied by General Pattakos. The trip buttressed the impression the junta wishes to convey: that the King is on their side. Actually, many Greeks, including the King, feel that the junta as it now exists is not likely to endure, and that one strong man will eventually emerge as dictator. It is with that man that...
General Motors, for whatever comfort it could find, was not alone in its sales and earnings sag. Enough corporations held annual meetings and reported first-quarter results last week so that patterns became clear. Surveying 514 companies, the New York Times found their combined profits off 7.3%, compared to last year. A similar survey by the Wall Street Journal of 468 companies showed after-tax earnings down 9% for the quarter. The sharpest drops were in autos, steel, rails, textiles, aircraft and building materials. Moderate gains were registered in office equipment, petroleum, tobacco, publishing and utilities. Here, too, the news...