Word: productive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps. By analyzing wave lengths of visible light, scientists might well make the paintings on these pages. But they have not bothered, and if they had tried, the man-hours would have far outnumbered the time spent by artists using intuition. Still, what makes the end product not the same as waves on an oscilloscope? One artist has an answer. He is John Goodyear, 34, an associate professor of art at Rutgers University, whose work consists of gently moving colored lattices (above). Not as chilly an artist as most oppers, he lets his eight-year-old daughter pick his colors...
...confidence in the future of the economy. Despite the continuance of local strikes at General Motors and a walkout by workers at American Motors, that optimism was reinforced last week by reports of rising profits, record dividend payments, and the Commerce Department's announcement that the gross national product rose by $8.9 billion in the third quarter to a record annual rate of $627.5 billion...
...types of machines. Many small operators dropped out, unable to compete for locations or cough up $2,000 for a single, modern coffee dispenser. In the last five years, 400 mergers have taken place. Meanwhile new mechanical marvels have lured more nickels and dimes. Coffee, the most profitable product (2.8 billion cups last year), percolated higher sales and earnings with the introduction of single-cup, variable-strength mixers. Soft drinks in cups, an impulse purchase, boomed with the introduction of cracked ice to the machines. Cigarettes, the largest sales item (4.2 billion packs last year from 863,000 machines), actually...
...people are rarely satisfied with things as they are. One notable exception was the catch phrase that helped return Britain's Tory Party to power in 1959: "You never had it so good." In general, though, Democrats, like detergent manufacturers, favor slogans that offer a new and better product ("New Deal," "New Frontier"). The Grand Old Party, like whisky distillers, prefers to emphasize aged-in-the-wood reliability, from Abraham Lincoln's "Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream" to 1924's "Keep cool with Coolidge...
...More Squeeze. Both companies have gone strongly into flip-top cans for beer and soft drinks; production of flip-tops has risen from 25 million to 3.6 billion in two years. Designers are now working on flip-tops that will remain on the can after it is opened, thus avoid cutting feet when tops are tossed carelessly on floors or beaches. Recently U.S. companies adopted the Swedish idea of covering vacuum-pack coffee cans with plastic lids that can be used to keep the product fresh. Some companies have already taken the next obvious step: putting advertising stress...