Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office of a Milan newspaperman friend one day last week to see how they were playing the story. He jokingly wrote out a fake headline quoting her as saying: I LOVE HENRY AND I WILL SOON MARRY HIM. "Oh no!" she squealed, laughing delightedly. "That would ruin me!" They agreed to make it: MARIA CHRISTINA DOES NOT DENY FRIENDSHIP WITH HENRY FORD...
...Polaroid people are convinced that only a truly skilled bungler will be able to ruin a picture with the new Automatic 100 Land Camera. It has a battery-powered shutter that measures the intensity of the light and sets the shutter speed (as high as 1/1200 sec.) at the instant the picture is snapped. The film - either color or black and white - comes in a flat pack that slides into the camera with no threading necessary; and the 31-in. by 41-in. pictures are developed and printed by means of a chemical process built into the film...
Buber believes that an I-Thou meeting between men is more than ever necessary in a world threatened by atomic ruin. "Politicians do not talk with one another to reach a real understanding based on their aims," says Buber, who has little expectation that world leaders will listen to him. "I think the main problems existing between great powers should be talked over in a different way. They should talk to each other as do good merchants who have opposed each other but have begun to see that it's worthwhile to find out if, perchance, their common interests...
What Publisher Ochs got when he bought the New York Times was a property that had been described precisely by a contemporary critic as "the most picturesque old ruin among the newspapers of America." Its circulation was an anemic 9,000 and it was losing $1,000 a day. It took just four years of Ochs's energetic skill to get his purchase to show a profit...
...most U.S. companies, the quality-control department is apt to be a laboratory where technicians happily ruin a random sample of products by tearing, pulling, bending or melting them to see if they meet set standards. But in today's rapidly advancing technology, where the products are often too complex or too expensive to test by such methods, industry's scientists are turning to a new and promising science called nondestructive testing. They are using X rays, ultrasonics, magnetic pa ticles, dyes and tracer gases to spy out flaws and weaknesses that affect quality or safety - and doing...