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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feels rejected or "alienated." But what leads one man in such a situation to kill and another merely to get drunk is a question psychologists have never really answered. There is no doubt that violence has a cathartic effect, and the pressures that cause it must find an outlet of one kind or another. (Japan's Matsushita Electric Co. has set up a dummy of the foreman that workers can beat up on a given day once a week, thereby presumably releasing their aggressions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: VIOLENCE IN AMERICA | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

Mark Cross looks back to modest beginnings, when an Irish saddler, Henry W. Cross, and his son Mark opened their shop on Boston's Summer Street to sell harnesses and saddles. It later became an exclusive outlet for fine English leather goods, moved to Manhattan to cater to the well-to-do. Though leather has always been the main line, over the years Mark Cross introduced to New York such novelties from the Old World as the Thermos bottle and, during World War I, the wristwatch, which it was first to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Luxuries Going West | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

...sold 600,000 copies, and he has now finished cutting a third, in which he intones such golden oldies as A Visit from St. Nicholas and Silent Night while a 22-man orchestra and ten-man choir make moan in the background. As for that craving, it often finds outlet in his campaign to make the marigold the national flower, though Ev confessed that he had been nursing his thespian urgings for years, had in fact decided on a stage career when he was just a tad but "my mother wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 21, 1967 | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

...Urubupungá project, besides providing rural electricity, will include ship and barge locks, making the Paraná navigable and giving the interior an outlet to the sea at Rio de la Plata. Moreover, the northernmost tributaries of theParaná nearly touch the southern tributaries of the Amazon. Engineers suggest that a canal might eventually join the rivers so that a vessel could enter South America at the mouth of the Amazon, do business along the interior route, and exit at Buenos Aires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Harnessing the Parana | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

Many other investors regard mortgages as a last-choice outlet for money. Pension funds, the nation's fastest-growing pool of savings, have put a mere 8% of their $100 billion hoard into mortgages. Because of monthly collections and bookkeeping, lack of standardization and archaic foreclosure laws in many states, mortgages are clumsy and costly to handle. Restrictions on interest rates (6% maximum in ten states, 7% in six) divert funds elsewhere. Only Government-backed mortgages, less than a fifth of the total, can be readily traded among investors. The 6% interest ceiling on FHA and VA loans, handiwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mortgages: Systematic Mess | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

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