Word: maker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...journalist," he once said, "I am in command of a small sector in the very front trenches of this battle for freedom." For Henry Robinson Luce, the battle ended last week. On the 44th anniversary of TIME'S first issue, America's greatest maker of magazines died in Phoenix of a coronary occlusion...
...harsh moral configuration. The Wound Laboratory is perfectly designed to bring on a confrontation between the zealot and the omelet maker (the omelet maker being the one who always insists that you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs). The issue is framed exactly: animal life is forfeit to the potential gain of human life. An ironist would point out that the Wound Laboratory would put animals to death in order to perfect the human talent to make war-and that war is humanity's most dramatic bestiality. Inevitably, the idea of the Wound Laboratory...
Maytag, a leading maker of home appliances, dubbed its first wringer "the hired girl" and cranked out some 2,000 machines a day during the peak production year of 1948. Workers put in 60-hour weeks to fill the demand for washers that cleaned the diapers for the baby boom. Now output is down to several dozen...
Osborne, of course, is not the only personal-computer maker having troubles. Victor Technologies of Scotts Valley, Calif., last week laid off 350 workers and announced it expects to lose money in the third quarter. Coleco, based in West Hartford, Conn., once again delayed delivery of the Adam, its new $600-to-$700 computer system, raising questions as to whether the product would be shipped in time for the Christmas selling season...
...saga of John Z. DeLorean is still unfolding, but the books are already starting to appear. Can the movie be far behind? Dream Maker (G.P. Putnam; 455 pages; $16.95) by Ivan Fallen and James Srodes was first in the stores. Due out next month is a more authoritative account by Detroit Journalist Hillel Levin, Grand Delusions (Viking; 336 pages; $15.95). Levin reveals that while DeLorean's sports-car company was heading toward insolvency, he charged the firm $78,100 for expenses in moving from Detroit to New York City, gave executives credit cards for Tiffany and "21" Club...