Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Formosa papers and others flown in from Hong Kong, Chiang dons his khaki cape, enters his 1949 Cadillac, and makes the 25-minute drive to his office in the Ministry of National Defense in downtown Taipei (pop. 500,000). Soldiers of the security force appear as if by magic along the route, then as magically melt away after he has passed. Past a dark bronze bust of himself on the stair landing, he walks quickly and alone to his third-floor office, where the blue velvet curtains are always drawn for security...
...Dietrich magic lingers-far more persistently than the whiff of Lanvin's Arpege with which Columbia has obligingly scented the first 5,000 albums...
...three short hours required by the rule book are deceptive. After a student has showered, dressed, and walked to and from exercise, he has often spent twice that time. Even if some training were necessary for freshmen, as the program's directors argue, "three" has never been proved the magic number for attaining physical fitness. Actually, for the man with a job, the excretes may be more harmful than beneficial if it requires him to make up time lost in afternoon exercise by sleeping less at night. If University officials are concerned about the physical condition of under-par freshmen...
...meant to stun, dazzle, or instruct the viewer, but simply to be enjoyed. Gerassi clearly enjoyed painting each one. They have the brightness, boldness and paradoxical vagueness that six-year-olds generally bring to painting, but behind the pictures' ebullience lies a highly sophisticated intelligence. Gerassi's Magic Mountains (right) is done with rockbottom economy of means: a few horizontal stripes, one with a sawtooth edge. To those who demand recognizable details, it may seem little more than a close-up of a rusty saw. But taken on its own terms, as evocation rather than description...
...that IBM restrains trade through its 1,500 patents and by the fact that it leases its accounting machines instead of selling them. Nevertheless, President Tom Watson Jr. intends to keep on expanding at top speed. By 1960 he confidently expects IBM's sales to climb over the magic $1 billion figure...