Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basement is completed, but Atomsville, U.S.A., may become the favorite of the younger set. For one thing, the entrance is only 5 ft. high, and adults are reduced to watching on closed-circuit TV. For another, kids can press buttons and twist knobs to their heart's content. The sea and the human brain are explored in other displays...
...happen to believe in commencement ceremonies," confessed University of Kentucky President John Oswald, generously, as he gave the commencement speech at Indiana's DePauw University. If commencement speeches do have value, it must-to judge from their customary content-be that of good advice. Last week, graduates got good advice by the chapelful, by the audi-toriumful, by the stadiumful...
...told. (For his pains, Atahualpa was strangled.) Indifferently, the Spaniards melted art into bullion; their pillage increased Europe's gold supply by 20%, part of which went to finance the ill-fated Armada. To the modern world, pre-Columbian gold again has great value apart from its content as metal: its artistic worth...
...that it sold a fortnight ago to A.T. & T. and other communications companies, Comsat last week disposed of another 5,000,000 shares to more than 500,000 individual investors-the biggest initial distribution in history. A few customers managed to get 50 shares, but most had to be content with ten or fewer. An IBM computer system printed and registered the entire issue, saving 25,000 man-hours of work. Sales were over the counter, with regular trading on the New York, Midwest and Pacific Coast stock exchanges expected to begin in July. The market held fairly firm-Comsat...
...such opportunities are still too few, by themselves, to keep Storyboard going. And Hubley is finding commercials even more debilitating than usual. There is no time, he feels, in such a complicated and precarious world to make films without content. Yet making commercials seems to be the only way he can finance his artistic freedom...