Word: productive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other stars, hearing this, scarcely look up. They are too busy making their own commercials. In the olden days-that is, in the earlier 1950s-the idea of an established star's barking on TV for a commercial product was unthinkable. Now Barbara Stanwyck, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Taylor, Claudette Colbert and Edward G. Robinson all appear for Maxwell House, too-but only for $50,000 apiece. You can hear Robinson clearly enough, as he looks toughly over the brew and snarls...
Into Iacocca's place as division vice president-general manager will move a man who also has been intimately involved in the conception and success of the Mustang: Assistant General Manager Donald Nelson Frey, 41, who engineered the Mustang from its beginning as the division's product planner. An assistant professor in metallurgy at the University of Michigan before he joined Ford in 1951, Frey is Detroit's most uncommon auto executive, a sort of thinking man's automaker. He speaks Russian and French, is an opera and archaeology buff, reads such publications as Red China...
...this extraordinary man. His career is only comprehensible in terms of a day when Europe was fragmented into provinces rather than nations, when men were loyal to patrons rather than nations, and when aristocrats felt more kinship to other aristocrats than to their own peasants. Eugen was the product of just such confused loyalties, unimaginable in these tidier times. For all his years serving the Habsburgs, for instance, he never mastered German...
Since 1959, Cuba's gross national product has dwindled by 15% , the sugar crop has slipped 45% , the country's foreign debt-owed mostly to the Soviet Union-has ballooned to $2 billion. Worse still, Cuba's relations with Moscow are going from bumptious...
...bring economic policy to bear on such old problems as unemployment and the balance of payments deficit. Okun, a former Yale economist, is a tall, professorial type who before his appointment last November was best known for his pioneering explanation of the gaps between actual and potential gross national product. Called "Okun's law," it will be a major tool for the Administration in deciding how much of an excise tax cut will be needed to give the economy a lift...