Word: productions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LIFE'S contract includes magazine, foreign and domestic serial and book rights. Attorney DeOrsey counseled the astronauts to negotiate separate contracts for television and movie rights, product endorsement and, in DeOrsey's words, "things you couldn't imagine." The "things," added DeOrsey, do not include a bid from a bank to open an astronauts account with the theme: "They might take a risk in space but when it comes to what they do with their money on good old earth . . ." DeOrsey coldly turned the offer down. LIFE has assigned three staffers to stay with the seven astronauts...
...Navy has already spent $122 million in the program, the Air Force another $110 million. The first group of 20 B-70s with boron afterburners would have cost $3.5 billion, and the boron fuel to power them would have been about 100 times more expensive than conventional, petroleum-product fuel...
Grivas' activity was a decided embarrassment to Archbishop Makarios, who has impressed even British and Turkish critics with his desire to bring peace to Cyprus before his expected selection next winter as President. Worried by Grivas' pronouncements, which seemed to many Cypriots the mischievous product of thwarted ambitions. Makarios last week sent his top aide, Bishop Anthimos, to Athens to plead with the old soldier to restrain himself. Sighed Makarios to a reporter: "For Cyprus the Cypriot problem is over. The problem now exists in Greece." So far, however, the bitter Grivas does not seem to have captured...
Chairman Martin pointed out that the index of industrial growth is a more significant indication of the economy's bustle than many other indicators, such as gross national product. It is a pure index of real production, does not include the inflationary rise in prices, which often makes the rise in other indexes seem greater than it actually is. Said Martin: "As the structure of the economy keeps changing, the job of combining measures of its many parts into a single index cannot be done without having to make major revisions every few years." With increasing use of electronic...
...must sell itself." He constantly preaches quality, plasters plants with signs proclaiming, QUALITY CAN'T BE REPAIRED INTO A CAR. He fears that as the U.S. living standard has gone up, the pride of the U.S. worker in doing a quality job has gone down. "Mercedes-Benz products are the highest crafted autos in the world," he says of the West German cars that S.P. distributes in the U.S. "We couldn't build the kind of product Mercedes-Benz builds." Mercedes' maker, Daimler-Benz, also has a high regard for Churchill. It has invested about...