Word: covering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Architect Nathaniel Owings states, "architecture has always been the mirror image of a civilization," your cover article [Aug. 2] exemplifies the disturbing preoccupation with monumentality that exists in our society. Architecture as the molding of a physical environment can make no significant changes in how human beings live unless it is linked with a change in the social, political and economic environments. The major portion of the architecture you show expresses the "needs, priorities, aspirations" of the corporation, the industrial megalith and a national state of mind that is more interested in the economics of production and performance than...
...tens of thousands of words that were filed by the correspondents, a 227-page convention report was organized into book form and transmitted to New York for Cover Writer Larry Barrett and the rest of the Nation staff to coordinate with their own notes. For illustration, British Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe flew from London, and Australian Cartoonist Pat Oliphant took time off from his job with the Denver Post to record their impressions of the convention for TIME...
...lighter stories about the business community, the Wall Street Journal gently chided those executives who take off for long weekends early Friday afternoon and leave instructions with secretaries to cover up for them. "The empty executive suites irk a lot of people," reported the paper. "An increasing number of businessmen are complaining that so many executives disappear on Friday afternoons that it is impossible to conduct any business...
...back on staff, ordered a $100 million modernization program. Then, on a fishing trip with Chairman Charles S. Jones of Richfield Oil Corp., he worked out a merger that linked Atlantic with the Los Angeles company. The agreement between the two was a scant five pages long to cover a $1.2 billion organization with worldwide holdings...
Cheap Power. Key to the state-sponsored scheme is a special deal to pro vide the plants with cheap power. Each company will build its own smelter and invest jointly with the government in a power plant. The government will contribute 30-year loans totaling $149 million to cover the investment in the power stations and will charge the companies special low rates for the electricity they...