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...kind of Bible to us," says Montreal Businessman Gordon Mills, 53, who, with his wife Isabel, is currently winding up a month-long European vacation. "Right from the start it made things easier?things like tipping on the ship coming over. It helped us fit in much quicker." On Fielding's recommendation, Mrs. Mills shopped at Liberty's for a tweed suit, at Marks & Spencer for sweaters and lingerie, at Harrods for a 220-volt adapter for their traveling steam iron?"He says you can get anything at Harrods." They ate dinner at the Elizabethan Room of the Gore Hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: A Guide to Temple Fielding | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...canal in force, and the best that it could hope would be to damage Israeli bases with its 20 Russian-supplied tactical missiles, which have a range of 45 miles. But, as 1967 proved, the option to attack is not Nasser's alone. There would be no quicker way to draw wrath than any attempt to follow up on his declaration that "we reserve the right to strike at Israeli civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Crumbling Deterrent | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...think they were very impatient with the slowness with which this program for the black students was moving, and insisted on quicker action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Pusey Meets the Press | 5/8/1969 | See Source »

McClelland feels that his experiment has a number of practical as well as theoretical implications. One is that the instant training of potential business leaders may be a quicker and more painless way of bringing economic motivation to an underdeveloped nation than by indiscriminate infusions of financial aid. The Indian businessmen who were stimulated by his course went on to expand their enterprises, thus creating new jobs and earning more money. Another bonus from the plan is the possible application of the n Ach stimulant theory to the black ghettos of U.S. cities. Boston's Behavioral Science Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psychology: Teaching Business Success | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

Still, this night had gone quicker than the previous one--or at least differently. The change in the weather, the fact that no one would have to spend the night in the cabin, the speed with which we moved through the shooting schedule--all these things made Saturday night closer to a working experience, and far removed from the ghosts that seemed to have taken over the night before...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The World is a Big Box | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

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