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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Cast by the Nazis as persecutor of a helpless old Jewish shopkeeper (Ida Kaminska), a seriocomic Aryan nonentity (Josef Kroner) struggles against moral bankruptcy in a fine Czechoslovakian drama that reduces the march of history to events on a pathetically human scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 1, 1966 | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...called Gengras a plodder. He became a whiz salesman of bottled cooking gas in his teens, graduated to cars, and rapidly built a chain of automobile dealerships stretching from Rhode Island to Long Island. Then he expanded into public transit in his home state and insurance on an international scale. Along the way, Gengras presciently fathered eleven children, five of whom will be eligible to vote the G.O.P. ticket in November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Connecticut: In the Ring with Dempsey | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

Washington observers were inclined to agree that the changes so far were relatively minor, though hopeful. Full-scale U.S. aid to India is being resumed after a halt caused by the Kashmir war, and an aid-India consortium, organized by the World Bank, will soon announce a $900 million loan to finance imports. Mrs. Gandhi makes it clear that the fact that Western bankers approve of her economics does not rob her of in dependence in foreign affairs. Last week she also announced plans for a visit to the Soviet Union in July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Toward a Freer Economy | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

...painting is its visual presence, not the fact that a naked woman has rolled on it." "Presence" in his works is felt by pressing buttons. Motors whir, lights whirl, and metal mirrors wiggle back and forth fun-house style. By eliminating the human figure, and even human scale, Le Pare runs opposite to pop or any art style. He strikes out for a world where science and art meet, where absurdity is nonetheless fact, where reality, however abstract in appearance, is still reality and thus worthy of contemplation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Year of the Mechanical Rabbit | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

Going Conglomerate. What can merger-minded businesses still legally do? With this year's decisions, the Supreme Court has ruled out more firmly than ever practically all so-called "horizontal" mergers (between two competing firms), even those that are small-scale in local markets. It has cast new doubt on whether "vertical" combines (with a supplier or customer) will survive a court test. Only for "conglomerate" mergers (between companies in unrelated lines of business) does the legal path remain relatively unblocked. That is the path that businessmen are now following. About 70% of last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antitrust: An Anchor in the Past | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

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