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Word: fasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world beyond Wall Street, most financial trade publications seem as dull and dreary as a stock prospectus. A new publication in this ar cane area of journalism, however, is fast proving that writing about high finance can be both exciting and amusing. Its editor is 'Adam Smith,' the author of the irreverent and humorous bestseller, The Money Game. As Wall Street and publishing circles know by now, Smith is really George J.W. Good man, 38, a former Rhodes scholar, journalist (TIME, FORTUNE), novelist and screenwriter (The Wheeler Dealers). Considerably less well known is Good man's latest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Son of Scarsdale Fats | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...Larger Audience. In the patient backs of the garment workers there are echoes of Daumier and Degas, while the light of Levine's Coney Island is haunted by the shades of Manet and Prendergast. Yet in choosing a 19th century idiom to depict the fast-disappearing world of hand-labor shops and nostalgic memories of big-city beaches, Levine is, after all, doing only what any artist must-suiting style to subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Coney Island Daumier | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...brushwork is highly personalized and uninhibited. The earthy zest and pounding rhythm of Luca Giordano's 1702 Crucifixion is all the more remarkable because the artist turned out his work at maximum speed; in his day, he was known as Luca fa presto, or Fast Worker Luca. Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini's Fall of Phaëthon is built of thin, semitransparent layers of oil paint and has a lightness that the finished fresco undoubtedly lacked (the sketch has outlived the fresco, which was destroyed in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Before the Boldness Vanished | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

Sinclair had other reasons to opt for Atlantic Richfield. Although it boasts a solid refinery and marketing operation, Sinclair suffers from limited production capacity and must buy large amounts of crude oil at a premium from outside sources. Fast-growing Atlantic Richfield (1967 sales: $1.56 billion) has meanwhile been on a production binge, and its recent oil find on the North Slope of Alaska promises to be one of the largest in U.S. history. A merger that would enable Atlantic Richfield to move its oil through Sinclair refineries would obviously benefit both companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers: Struggle for Sinclair | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...design almost immediately. Five years later, with the Mustang's popularity firmly established, company officials can smile about the costly changeover. "We re alized," says one, "that American buttocks are larger than British." To guard against just that kind of mistake, U.S. business is relying increasingly on the fast-growing science of anthropometry, which systematically studies man's ever-changing anatomical measurements and applies the findings to products and equipment. The idea, says Henry Dreyfuss, a Manhattan industrial designer who specializes in anthropometry, is to "make machines fit people, because it's easier than making people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Fitting Machines to People | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

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