Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mechanics of printing TIME simultaneously at scattered points also were simplified. The production system begins in Chicago where proofs of editorial and advertising matter are pulled on high-gloss enamel paper for each international edition. These pasted-up pages are then photographed, and a set of the so-called film positives is dispatched by air to each printing point overseas, where the local printer makes offset plates directly from the film...
...absent-minded composer named Karlheinz Stockhausen has fun supplying the state-run West German Radio with electronic music. Many of the sounds he makes resemble those of the Barrons, but his attitude is at the opposite esthetic pole. A conservatory pupil first, then an electronic expert, he composes on paper (his scores suggest a cross between economists' graphs and architects' schemes), then reduces his ideas to sound. This involves great concentration and endless experiment...
Saarinen is absorbed day and night in the problem of visualization, likes to start working early with models, is notoriously extravagant with paper. In a single evening he will run through 170 ft. of tracing paper; he made more than 2,000 drawings in revising his plan for the London embassy. A girl in his office, whose desk Saarinen sometimes uses late at night, inevitably knows when he has been there. Says she: "It's like slicing down through the excavations at Troy-tracing paper, tobacco, paper, paper, matches, more paper, a cigar stub, paper, paper, paper...
...newspaper the right to fire a staffer when it learns that he has a Communist past? The New York Times thought so last fall when it sacked Jack Shafer, 44, a copyreader on the Times's Foreign Desk. The paper said that it lost confidence in Shafer after a subpoena from Senate investigators prompted him to admit party membership in 1940-41 and again in 1946-48, before he joined the Times. Quick to protest was the Newspaper Guild. Grounds for its protest : the dismissal was without "good and sufficient cause" and thus a violation of its contract with...
...resumed, it slid to a low of 5¾. At week's end Bellanca had rallied a bit and was up to 7¾. Stockholders had taken a bad beating, but the big loser was Albert, who had held 950,000 shares when the slide started. His paper loss: about $20 million...