Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned out, the proposition was quite a bit better than ten to one. Started with capital of $86,000, TIME became Time Inc., spread to include LIFE, FORTUNE, ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, HOUSE & HOME, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, and other enterprises, with total assets of $262 million and gross revenues last year of $326 million. That is how much TIME has changed financially...
Toward $600 Billion. The net result is that the gross national product grew by $8.5 billion through March, should climb another $10 billion by the end of June. Since it started at $563.5 billion in January, the present rate of increase would push G.N.P. close to $600 billion by year's end. While few experts are quite that optimistic, most now foresee a year-end figure far above the Kennedy Administration's January estimate of $578 billion...
...President's mind last week. Bestselling Baby Doctor Benjamin Spock was among the guests at dinner for the Grand Duchess. And when Kennedy stood in for Jackie as host at a brunch for congressional wives, he assured them that Jackie, too, "is engaged in increasing the gross national product in her own special way." As for Jackie, she had flown to New York, where she paid a surprise visit to the Metropolitan Opera House to see a performance by London's Royal Ballet...
...Bald, gross, and illiterate Emile a Tae, 64, half-caste Tahitian son of Painter Paul Gauguin, used to let tourists take his picture for a few francs, just enough to keep himself in beer. Now, at London's prestigious O'Hana Gallery, his own childlike oil-on-canvas pictures are bringing from $700 to $1,400 apiece, and he has learned to sign them Emile Gauguin. He has reformed too, says fortyish mentor, Madame Josette Giraud, a French writer who bailed him out of jail several times and put a paintbrush in his hand. When word gets back...
...date of the first Bonds for Israel issue, and its backers hope that American bondholders will reinvest their earnings in the new fund. If they do, it should no longer be a mere gesture of charity. After a tough currency devaluation last year, Israel is increasing its gross national product 10% a year, has record foreign reserves of $640 million and a stock market on which the value of shares has risen twelve times in three years. Insists an Israeli investment counselor: "Israel is not merely a place that is sentimentally attractive. It is now a place where money...