Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...figure out the precise calculations, such as how much aluminum can be pared from window frames (the answer saved Shell $200,000 in Houston). The driving force in the San Francisco office is Charles Bassett, 46, a touseled six-footer who came to S.O.M. from the office of the late Eero Saarinen. He ranges widely in styles, designed the Alcoa building, the Mauna Kea Hotel in Hawaii, and the bare-boned Oakland-Alameda County stadium, which he boasts is a beauty "with no rouge on her cheeks...
...British, of course, have tried to explain their national sport to Americans from time to time. After all, the colonials lived under their various majesties for almost two centuries. Indeed, history records that as late as 1859, some 25,000 people dutifully turned out to witness a cricket match in Hoboken, N.J. Still, most Americans have some difficulty understanding a game in which 1) the batter wears gloves while all but one of the fielders are barehanded, 2) runs are scored in dozens or even hundreds, 3) it takes 20 outs to end one "innings," and 4) the whole thing...
...Late? Last week a top-level American Bankers Association commit tee called for an end to traditional certificates. The committee, composed of bank and stock-exchange officials, announced that by the end of 1969, it hoped to replace all the certificates of actively traded issues with a standard-sized punch card. Every stock or bond issue will have an eight-digit identification number that will be used on all wire communications, transactions, transfers and dividend claims. Standard & Poor's will spend close to $1,000,000 coding some 1,000,000 stocks and bond issues into two directories, each...
Combined with the new Central Certificate Service, which will eventually allow brokers to leave all stocks traded among themselves in a central clearinghouse, computerized certificates should go a long way toward streamlining back-office operations on Wall Street. But skeptics wonder whether the new measures may not be too late. Due to the paper work glut, brokers are often unable to deliver securities within the legal five-business-day period. Though such "fails" have not yet been a serious problem, technically they now represent a $3.24 billion debt owed by firms caught short of certificates. The situation could become critical...
...privilege from their school, putting dissidents on reservations, and destroying all concepts of adolescence. He cannot be serious; yet one pokes vainly through Shapiro's overcooked simplifications for a scrap of wit or irony. Finding none, the reader concludes that To Abolish Children is little more than a late-middle-age temper tantrum...