Word: jensenism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shareholders appoint a receiver for Rolls. To its extreme embarrassment, the Tory government intends to introduce legislation this week that would nationalize all of Rolls except the auto and oil-engine divisions. Production of the cars will continue, though possibly under a change of ownership; Britain's Jensen Motors Ltd. is likely to bid to buy the profitable car division. A U.S. Cabinet member told TIME that the nationalized Rolls-Royce would continue building engines for Lockheed. But British officials declared emphatically that a state-run Rolls would make no more jet engines under the "impossible" Lockheed contract (Lockheed...
Almost to a man, store managers report a decline in sales of expensive items like jewelry and furs and a shift to cheaper and more practical gifts like electric hair combs and digital clocks. In Manhattan, Lord & Taylor advertised a selection of gifts-nothing over $8. Georg Jensen's found that normally fast-moving $1,500 jewelry was being passed up in favor of the $25-to-$125 variety. "The best-known store in Texas has dropped from its popular Christmas catalogue the traditional tips on "How to spend a million dollars at Neiman-Marcus...
Academic Storm. The findings by Katz and Watson undermine the notion that race and intellect can be glibly linked. They also challenge the hypothesis of Berkeley Psychologist Arthur R. Jensen that in some forms of intelligence the Negro is genetically doomed to a lower position than the white. This proposition, published last year in the Harvard Educational Review, provoked an academic storm that has yet to subside...
...sailboats. Quite naturally, the agency plans to handle Snark's advertising and capitalize on techniques that Chairman Bill Bernbach developed to plug a more famous low-priced product. D.D.B. hopes to establish Snark as "the Volkswagen of the sea." The agency also owns a 20% interest in Georg Jensen, an elegant Manhattan houseware and silver store; last year D.D.B. agreed to buy a small ice cream producer, Frose-Mar Corp., but the deal later fell through. "We will continue to diversify," says Senior Vice President James Madden, who has examined 300 potential acquisitions during the past six months...
...opposed to Jensen, those responsible for printing this picture, and others, we feel that black people have been extremely intelligent in fighting back against the special oppressions heaped on them by the ruling class of this country, and in giving leadership to the daily struggles of working people, such as the recent postal strike...