Word: ince
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...introduction of the 13? stamp and other increased rates. Next week Congress will return to work and will certainly have to deal with the very serious financial crisis that has been building up at the U.S. Postal Service. As a publishing company that uses the mails extensively, Time Inc. is also gravely concerned with this essential national service. With that concern in mind, Time Inc. Chairman Andrew Heiskell sent a letter to President Ford on Dec. 12, pointing out what he regards as the basic reasons for the crisis. The President has not yet replied, but we feel the letter...
...bonanza. A bill that would have erased most of the tax advantages of investing in movies passed the House last year. It is pending before the Senate Finance Committee and a new attempt to muster votes for it probably will be made in 1976. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Vice President Burton R. Marcus concedes that the current law has bred abuses that "constitute a rip-off and ought to be eliminated." Like other motion-picture executives, however, he is afraid that Congress may enact legislation that would damage the industry's ability to obtain conventional outside financing...
...trip cuts it to four hours-in addition to the savings in cash. Milwaukee's Odyssey Travel is chartering Pan Am flights nonstop to the Caribbean from Des Moines, Indianapolis, St. Louis and other Midwestern cities. Marvin Smith, vice president of Boston's American International Travel Service Inc., estimates that more than 30% of O.T.C. tourists have rarely strayed more than 500 miles from home and have never taken a vacation by air before. As Jens Jurgen, a Long Island travel writer, observes, "This is the year of the Bicentennial-and it will be a revolutionary year...
Died. Dr. Bruce Webster, 74, medical director of Time Inc. from 1947, when he organized its medical department, until he retired in 1966, and venereologist who, as president of the American Social Health Association (1969-1972), led a national effort to control the spread of venereal disease; of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Liberty, the brokers and bums and cops, the lunatic bustle, the claustrophobic alleys and carnival vitality. This gorgeous parody, one of the largest environmental sculptures (other than earthworks) ever made in America, is called Ruckus Manhattan. The space for it was procured by a nonprofit organization, Creative Time Inc., which coordinated the six-month creation, and was donated by the Orient Overseas Association, a shipping company. The buildings, cars, trains, boats and people-from life-size effigies to tiny, comic-strip figures painted on vinyl -were made by the Ruckus Works, a team of 20 painters, carpenters, sewers and stuffers...