Word: productions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprise to any commercial flight instructor. Two years ago, at an instructor refresher course, instructors from all over the U.S. were unanimous in believing that doctors were their worst students. They were also unanimously of the opinion that once a doctor received a private license, he represented the poorest product of the instructor's efforts. The cause? You simply cannot tell an M.D. anything. The good doctor knows it all. The FAA official hit the nail on the head when he said, "Doctors fly with the feeling that they are omnipotent...
Showman Billy Rose throve on paradox. He was a tiny man who loved tall girls, an East Side slum product turned art patron and esthete, a Broadway hipster who became a shrewd Wall Street investor. Though he died six months ago, leaving an estate that may run as high as $50 million, the para oxes are not ended - Billy Rose has yet to be buried...
...hilly uplands to his barons, who in turn enlisted the rowdiest ruffians around into gangs of guards. No one really knows what "Mafia" means, but by the last century all Sicily knew what the Mafia was: a randy band, held together by blood oaths and eerie ritual, whose product was "Protection" and whose sell was never soft. Farmers paid to have their cattle not killed or their wells not poisoned. Lovers paid for the right to a few unharried moments in the moonlight. All the institutions of Sicilian society-church, aristocracy, political parties-either went along with the Mafia...
...regard Charles Darwin. At a pet-business convention in Manhattan last week, Axelrod showed off fish food that would have intrigued Darwin. This was Tubifex Worms-ordinary sewer-variety worms spiked with a tasty, Axelrod-discovered fish-blood extract, and dry-frozen. Axelrod, always confident, expects that the new product will capture most of the fish-food market...
...medicine to Erhard, but he has little choice. The cost of living went up 4.5% during the twelve months that ended in April. Spending by government, both federal and state, was bloated by 12% in 1965, much more than the still substantial growth of 8.4% in the gross national product. Erhard himself has been booed by coal miners in the Ruhr, whose industry is threatened by the Europe-wide revolution in oil, natural gas and atomic energy. The coal malaise has spread to steel-partly because the steel companies themselves produce 40% of West German coal-with the result that...