Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blurbs & Swipes. Apart from U.S. shows, however, the Iron Curtain countries still come on strong with dialectic. Television's purpose, sums up the Hungarian theoretical journal Tarsadalmi Szemle, is "agitation and propaganda in a perseveringly Marxist spirit." To that end, a typical recent night's fare in Budapest kicked off with a blurb on the activities of red-scarfed youth groups. Then followed a 15-minute commentary on Southeast Asia by an official of the party newspaper, and an unillustrated and soporific 45-minute autobiography by a 70-year-old Communist militant...
...Quincy Streets, a small crowd gathered to gape at the ice palace that earlier that morning had been an Economics Department office building. Gutted by a blaze, the building was soused with water that quickly froze into fairyland formations. Icicles like blodthirsty pixies held the building in an iron grip...
...Simmons claims a circulation of 200,000 and says hopeful things about advertising. Simmons and Publisher Leonard Mogel have provided 50% of the financing; seven of their Wall Street friends have put up the other half. If Cheetah does not make it, however, Simmons has a more conventional iron in the fire. This month he brings out a magazine devoted to a fad that will doubtless never die: Weight-Watchers...
...quite a view. In terms of globalization, few, if any, corporations can match the 85-year experience around the world of Jersey Standard, or its range of activities. With 52% of its vast assets abroad, Jersey is the world's biggest private overseas investor. Thus "Iron Mike" Haider, in the course of a day's work, may be involved in everything from a Middle East coup to whether Jersey should eventually construct a 1,000,000-ton supertanker, or what the President of the U.S. has on his mind...
...chemical-engineering degree at Stanford University ('27), before long was working for a Jersey affiliate called Carter Oil, where one of his early laboratory assignments was to check the quality of helium gas for use in dirigibles. Jersey prefers that its men not put down roots, and Iron Mike never really has. He bounced around the Southwest, moved from New York to Florida to Canada, where in 1947, as Imperial Oil's production boss, he brought in the Leduc oil field that made western Canada independent of oil from Texas and Louisiana...