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Such diversity usually pays off in today's kaleidoscopic economy, but Westinghouse's sales in recent years have been stagnant and its profits falling. Like the dinosaur, the company became too big, too contented and too slow-moving to change with changing conditions. It badly needed a prod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: New Life in an Old Giant | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

No Change. After all the evidence was in. Judge Gagliardi took two weeks to deliberate. His decision reflected his awareness that any choice was painful, and would be made between the conflicting loyalties of two people of good will. Both parents were well qualified to raise the children, he declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Family: A Question of Custody | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

Plot and situation, however well-turned or bizarre, have much less effect on the lifespan of a TV series than the personalities of its performers. If the performers are liked by the watching families, they are wanted back in the living room next week-and that is what keeps the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

Nanda's careful disguise was hardly necessary to assure his safety. The demonstrators were under orders of the pro-Russian wing of India's divided Communist Party, which for the present is as dedicated to nonviolence as the pro-Peking wing is committed to violence. The crowds were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: A Feeling of Drift | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

Although other U.S. cartoonists contented themselves with single jabs at the vulnerable presidential ego, they harmonized on the obvious theme: a convention so thoroughly ringmastered by the President that all the non-surprises came out of his pouch or his hat (see cuts).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Too Good to Miss | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

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