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Word: middleman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middleman between Artist Whitman and his engineers was a one-year-old organization called EAT (Experiments in Art and Technology, Inc.), which operates under an $8,000 grant from New York State, and expects to provide artists with the scientific savvy to produce even more far-out art. Among EAT's first private backers, each of which has put up $1,000 to encourage the liaison between art and industry and will lend its technicians to the cause, are A.T. & T., IBM and the A.F.L.-C.I.O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kinetics: Drawing in the Dark | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...other doctors' organizations recommend, on billing the patient directly for whatever charge they judge proper. The patient must then pay the bill, get it receipted, and send it to a contractor (it may be Blue Shield or an insurance company), which is acting as the Government's middleman for the area. When the contractor is satisfied that the claim is legitimate, it refunds the patient 80% of what is locally considered a reasonable fee. If the doctor's bill was for $10 and this is fully allowed, the patient pays only $2. But if the bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICARE: Expensive, Successful MEDICAID: Chaotic, Irrevocable | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

Strange to say, the Detroit TV commentator whose question brought on George Romney's Viet Nam "brainwashing" response spends less than half of his waking hours as a newsman. During daylight, Lou Gordon, 49, is a $50,000-a-year middleman for a women's-clothing manufacturer. He wears slick suits, a toupee-and sometimes a gun. By moonlight, he is a part-time expose specialist on Detroit radio (WXYZ) and UHF television (WKBD). For more than a decade, he has been collecting ugly facts in Detroit and spilling them out to a mildly fascinated public. Always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: Maintaining the Public Welfare | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

Lion & Unicorn will act as a kind of transatlantic middleman offering "the best of Britain." From offices in London, it will counsel British concerns on what they can sell to Americans-and how to go about selling it. Meanwhile in the U.S., now from a New York office and eventually from branches in other major cities, it will back its British clients with market research, advertising and promotion. Next month Lion & Unicorn will bring a couple of nubile nobles, Lady Mary Gaye Georgiana Curzon and her sister, Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Anne Curzon,* to New York to model mod clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Man from Lion & Unicorn | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...Middleman on viola: The in fighting for advancement that goes on among the more populous violin desks is not for him; that is why he switched over from the violin years ago. The cerebral sort, he lives for chamber music, which offers more challenge than the routine supporting role that most composers give his instrument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orchestras: Psychic Symphony | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

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