Word: giving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give you till you're 30 to make it," Bosley's mother once said to him. When he was 30, she said "31" and the next year "32." This season, at 32, Tom Bosley made...
According to some critics, Orff devotes so much attention to choreography, staging, and what he calls "language power" that he slights musical values. But the accusation bothers genial Composer Orff not at all. "I belong to no school," says he. "It doesn't give me a headache...
...yawing in thin air, and the intake duct was modified. To prepare for the record-breaking flight, Lockheed and the Air Force worked out a new flight plan. They decided that the F-104C should climb only to 40,000 ft., where the air is still dense enough to give the jet maximum thrust. When the plane hit full speed, Pilot Jordan was to zoom upward at a climb angle of between...
...Acme Co. brought out a new cam-finishing machine that does the job in 20 sec., v. 1 min. 15 sec. "What's just as important," says Acme's President T. L. Strimple, "we're being extra good in courting business in Europe and Asia. We give customers service, quick deliveries, parts, anything they ask for, just as if they were in Cleveland...
...Test of Vigor. More and more research is needed. Although industry spent $10 billion on research this year, it will have to spend still more. "The company that stints on research these days," says General Telephone & Electronics President Don Mitchell, "will give some short-term gain to its profit-and-loss statement, but it won't have any profit statement to worry about by 1970." Mitchell knows from experience that research pays off at a prodigious rate. "That means that $100 spent on research will bring back anywhere from $2,500 to $5,000 over a 25-year period...