Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stores. Since traditionally churches are safe long-term credit risks, it is questionable whether the bank really needs the accounts which Hudgins solicits in his sermons to back the church mortgages. It appears that he is simply trying to pick up accounts by using the churches as a medium of free advertising for the bank...
...easy. First of all, German opposition had to be overcome because the free-enterprise government of Chancellor Ludwig Erhard has an aversion to government planning. To get German cooperation, the drafting group pretended it was talking about something else, never used the word planning, and called itself the "Medium Term Economic Policy Committee." The committee also had to avoid appearing to move toward European political integration, which would arouse the wrath of French President Charles de Gaulle. What resulted fell short of being a real blueprint for Europe's economic future, but as an exercise in keeping European functionaries...
...torrent of problems at home, and last week, when she was finally able to get away, another snag developed: Air India's navigators went on strike for higher wages, grounding the Boeing 707 that she was to use for her trip. Undismayed, Mrs. Gandhi climbed into a slower, medium-range Caravelle of India's domestic airline for the 18-hour flight to Paris, which required four refueling stops...
Cinema, that still most magic medium-portable, cheap, displayable in any place at any hour, infinitely capable of recording knowledge, vastly surpassing TV in screen size, picture quality and color-theoretically ought to be a universal teaching tool. Currently, four U.S. schools are saturating themselves in film in an attempt to make the ideal a reality...
...CHRYSSA, 33, a Greek-born artist (she does not use her last name) discovered the new medium when she arrived in New York in 1954, and was stunned by that acropolis of billboard communication, Times Square. "It was a garden of light," she says. That, combined with her native love of calligraphy, led her to study sign lettering, and soon to neon itself. "Neon is made out of a clear, light material-like glass buildings. Transforming the cultural world into the world of the laboratory, it brings art nearer to science." For her just-opened show in Manhattan...