Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second largest beermaker, Allied Breweries (Ind Coope, Tetley Walker, Ansells), is bucking the national trend. During four critical weeks ending Nov. 24, Allied actually showed a 1% increase in sales. An attempt to change national habits is mainly responsible for that. Even before the breathalyzer blow fell, the firm launched a "You Can Take It with You" promotion campaign at a cost of $70 million. Some 8,500 Allied-owned pubs in Britain blossomed with displays promoting take-home sales, which, the company figured, have a huge untapped potential...
TRAINING As a hard-driving boss who built a small shoemaking firm into an apparel and retailing combine with annual sales of $872 million, Genesco Chairman W. Maxey Jarman can fairly claim to be a business expert. Yet Jarman is going back to school. He recently struggled to jot down answers to questions on a long series of statements, spoken in everything from pure Bronx to a Southern drawl, on a tape recording prepared by the Xerox Corp. "I thought I was a pretty good listener," Jarman said after sampling the 21-hour session. "Then I took that test...
Sleazy Money. The Suffolk County water authority, Newsday reported, had prohibited industrial development of vacant land in central Islip for fear that waste products would pollute the water supply. But when Water Authority Member (and Islip Republican Party Leader) Edward McGowan's firm bought the land, the authority changed its mind and approved its rezoning for manufacturing. McGowan sold the tract for a $167,000 profit. The scandal reached even to Newsday's doorstep. Its Suffolk editor, Kirk Price, who died last March, made $33,000 by a sale of land that he had bought...
...Pinter's dialogue is perfect for motion pictures: the lines in themselves have little substance, and the meaning emerges gradually, thus providing a complement rather than a distraction to cinematic stylization. Pinter command of language, though, transcends Losey's sense of style, and Losey does not always get a firm grip on the subtle and elusive screenplay. Often, the ideas are better on paper than they are in the finished film (Dirk Bogarde's liaison with ex-girlfriend Delphine Seyrig), and Accident falls flattest when Losey injects familiar notes of high Baroque into Pinter's version of the groves...
...simulation was written by Martin Gordon, an employee of ABT, Inc., a Cambridge research firm. He said that WGBX's innovation of audience participation made little difference to a basically difficult job. The problem is trying to direct the action of the players without denying them the right to make free decisions...