Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such new problems only served to underscore the new epoch in communications that rose with the drum-shaped, 85-lb. satellite. In an age fast growing familiar with man's race beyond the confines of his own world, Early Bird reached back toward the earth and seemed to shrink it almost to room size. All by itself, the satellite blanketed more than one-third of the globe. If two more soar into orbit, for the first time in history it will be literally true that for every nation instant contact will be possible with every inhabited spot on earth...
...president, Powers hopes to continue Pfizer's rapid diversification "through research, acquisitions and geography," plans to concentrate at first on becoming more familiar with Pfizer's U.S. operations by visiting each of the 25 U.S. plants. "Personal contact is important for any job," says Powers. After his appointment last week, he drove to Pfizer's Brooklyn plant, where he shook the hands of all 2,100 employees...
...model change has actually pushed Ford ahead of Opel and VW in medium-priced sales. Ford's low-priced Taunus ($1,417 for a four-door sedan), virtually unchanged since its introduction in 1962, is behind both the small Opel and VW's familiar beetle in sales, but it still accounts for 35% of Ford's German production...
...Sounds familiar? Blonde, bullion, gilded body. Of course, the criminal Midas who sent the Triumph in for refinishing is Gert Frobe of Goldfinger. But Director Jean Becker, unwilling to risk all on one reckless stab at success by association, has also equipped Backfire with the Breathless team of Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. This time sparks fly only sporadically between them, partly because Actress Seberg?whose beauty and talent are unevenly matched?misbehaves with the studied seductiveness of a schoolgirl trying out her first pair of heels...
...vulgarians," whose "politeness is as exquisite as their rudeness, their wisdom often indistinguishable from stupidity?" Author Rudofsky, an architect, designer and museum director, spent two years searching for an answer to his own question. He did not quite find one, and his route took him past many of the familiar inscrutabilities of an island where the kimono is dismembered before laundering, where the men wear long underwear in summer and in winter peel off their overcoats to bow to a friend, where the women surrender trolley seats to boys and rank no higher than condiments at table, where dinner ends...