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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, if people felt that they were being manipulated it would destroy the whole worth of the program. "You have to be careful not to lower their self-esteem," he cautions. "All you can give is a kind of avocational counselling...
...measure of what the bluest-chip corporations must pay for a bank loan, commercial banks have agreed about what that interest charge should be. Sometimes it has taken a few days; once, in 1958, it took a week for the pacemaking banks to fall in line with a lower rate. But for a fortnight some 40 of the nation's biggest banks have, to their consternation, found themselves in an unexpected battle over "the prime" with Chase Manhattan, New York City's biggest and the nation's second largest bank...
Milan-based, Progetti capitalizes on speed, sharp figuring and salesmanship. The company snatched a deal for a $51 million, 500-mi. Syrian pipeline away from a British firm by offering to install it in half the time at lower cost. Beating out eleven international companies for a $32 million Madras, India, refinery contract, Progetti agreed to complete the 2½ million-ton plant in two years. The company has also pushed into the European market with a $4,000,000 pipeline in France, a $2,500,000 undersea line in Spain and a $3,000,000 factory job in West...
With that one blow the barricades fell, and the avant-garde came storming through. Robert Downey's Chafed Elbows, the shaggy-surreal saga of a Village idiot who hopes to get rich quick by persuading female midgets to use contact lenses as contraceptives, opened in a Lower East Side cin bin that was soon crammed by the cab trade from uptown. And Shirley Clarke's Jason, a harrowing 120-minute interview with a black male prostitute, was offered a midtown opening as a hard-eyed cautionary tale and a surefire succes de scandale...
Most of the new film makers are as far out as their films. Many of them are poets and painters who belong to the New Bohemia and can be found on Manhattan's Lower East Side or in San Francisco's North Beach. They are apt to wear hair to the shoulders and beards to the ears; some smoke grass and turn on frequently with LSD. A few can count on a small, steady income from film rentals. But most under ground moviemakers, though their movies as a rule cost less than $500, feel lucky if they break...