Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deskless office. Since most executives want to show that they are policy thinkers who leave routine paperwork to underlings, desks have tended to disappear. Furthermore, explains Arnold Maremont, president of Chicago's automotive products firm, the Maremont Corp.: "A man sitting behind a desk is a man on horseback. He becomes a dictator." The same desire for informality applies in the board room. Abandoning the austere, paneled room built around a massive, no-nonsense board table, directors of more and more firms sit on upholstered chairs and comfortable couches, chat over low coffee tables. At Ft. Worth...
...sheet of paper measuring 5¼ in. by 5¾ in., Leonardo da Vinci crammed almost two dozen men and half a dozen horses in two detailed, swirling battle scenes. And in a drawing measuring 11 in. by 16 in., Pontormo roughly sketched a single man on horseback that, though deliberately unfinished, bulges with expressive power. Tiepolo's luminous imagination shines in chiaroscuro in the violent Martyrdom of a Saint...
...suburb of Los Angeles county last week, housewives with binoculars kept day-long vigil from ranch-house picture windows, while at night the husbands took over. One manned a spotlight on the entrance to a road running through a 1,100-acre tract of West Covina wilderness. Others, on horseback, patrolled the tract's borders, looking for signs of surreptitious spadework. What West Covina's residents were trying to do was prevent the expansion into their split-level suburb of Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, the chain of cemeteries dedicated to Builder Hubert Eaton's proposition that...
While Feisal stuck to his ledgers, King Saud practiced the gritty game of desert politics that he had learned on horseback at the side of his one-eyed warrior father Ibn Saud. First he moved grandly to the left of his brother Feisal, intrigued the kingdom's newspaper editors with talk of a transition from feudal to parliamentary rule (TIME, May 30). Then he flew to West Germany, drew out $50 million which he had providently tucked away in a bank there, came home and set off on royal safaris across the desert, dispensing largesse to tribal chieftains. Over...
Dynamite Downtown. Havana has seen noisier days, including one with 20 bombs earlier in the week, but none worse. In place of the usual black-powder noisemakers planted in the suburbs, these bombs were exploded downtown and were packed with dynamite. The provinces were not far behind. Saboteurs on horseback burned out an Agrarian Reform Institute garage in Pinar del Rio, derailed the Havana-Santiago express train at Santa Clara, fired a Havana-Santiago...