Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have lost their charm, a company with the distinctive name of Xerox still holds on to its appeal. Xerox owes all of its astonishing market success to a complicated, desk-sized machine prosaically called the 914 Office Copier. There is nothing prosaic about what the 914 does: without muss, fuss, delay or extensive training of an operator, it makes copies on ordinary paper of almost anything that will fit on its Qin. by 14-in. plate - including a child's doll. Last week, thanks to the 914. Xerox stock closed at $176 a share, roughly 49 times the company...
...historic Armory Show of 1913, when modern art first made its shocking impact on America. It was such a watershed event that, as long ago as 1956, our editors put down in their "futures book" a resolve to seek out and show anew the pictures that created such a fuss. The idea occurred at about the same time to a museum official in Utica, N.Y., who early this year was able to reassemble about 300 of the original works for a showing in Utica. This week the show returns to the original armory; and to commemorate the event, TIME prints...
Robert ("Fighting Bob") McNamara was back in the ring, eagerly taking on anyone and everyone who has the slightest doubt about the way he handled the controversial TFX fighter-aircraft contract award. Since he feels that the whole fuss reflects on his personal integrity, he was in a belligerent mood...
...Post could hardly have been more delighted with the fuss that it had stirred up. Curtis lost $18.9 million last year, and ever since brash young Clay Blair Jr., 37, was named editorial director of all Curtis magazines last fall, the Post has apparently been trying to hit its readers with a blockbuster a week, though its only previous success was December's notorious "eyeball-to-eyeball" account of the Cuba crisis. But as long as the blockbusters make a lot of noise, the Post does not seem much concerned by any fallout. "The final yardstick" of the magazine...
Catholicism reinforced her temperamental prudery. It seemed incredible to her princely in-laws, but she did not know what all Rome knew-that Prince Rico, her husband, had lived throughout their marriage in devoted adultery with a Principessa Giulia Monfalconi. She created a tremendous fuss when she found out, decamped with her daughter Constanza to lead a diminished but still sumptuous life in London, and went into a huff that lasted the rest of her life...