Word: loading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Betty Bacall issued a brisk ultimatum to herself: "Damn it, straighten up! Pull yourself together and point yourself in the right direction. MOVE!" The move was back to work: "It helped me enormously. There's always something about making a decision in your life. It takes a load off your back." At work she found herself possessed of one of the strengths peculiar to the middle years: "It is necessary for anyone to practice his craft to do it well and to improve. But also, in a strange way you have to live a certain amount of life...
...comes out of a well-fed computer. "My toughest job," he says, "is to figure out with some precision what the growth of the airline industry is going to be and then to order the right amount and kind of equipment. Profitability lies in a very few points of load factor...
Efficient maintenance conserves his own sturdy load factor (5 ft. 11 in., 185 lbs.) under the pressures of his $122,000-a-year job. Tillinghast carefully budgets time for such morale-boosting chores as awarding 20-year pins to employees. With his wife Lisette, he lives in a 22-room Georgian house in suburban Bronxville, N.Y., golfs (badly), shoots clay pigeons (much better), occasionally plays high-stakes poker (superbly). Though little in his background prepared him for the airline business, Tillinghast holds: "Special knowledge is a lot less important than a keen mind." That...
...Thanks to the fallen stone, he was suddenly in harmony with the forest and the temple. He pictured the three stones as they had been, one above the other; the two dancing girls were some of the purest work he had ever seen. Well, the next thing was to load them onto the carts...
...available not only to the public but also to Oriental scholars. When did Brundage decide to specialize in collecting Eastern art works? "In 1935," he says, "I made a special trip to London to see a .great exhibit of Chinese art there. British experts had brought a whole gunboat load back. Seeing that drove the last nail in my coffin. I've been broke ever since." Now, because of Brundage, the Western world has a rare chance to study the artistic richness of the Orient...