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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...color set on its back and imprisoned it in a quartz-like block of plastic. "When the TV stops functioning," explains Seery, "the work is complete." Earl Reiback, 33, an M.I.T.-trained nuclear physicist, stripped the phosphor coating from the glass screens on three sets, allowing the viewer to see electrons gleaming eerily inside the colorfully painted picture tube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Medium: Taking Waste Out of the Wasteland | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...such innovations as computer-controlled cutting torches, self-propelled welders and devices that can flip over 80-ton subassemblies to make welding easier. These have helped reduce building costs from $91 a ton for a 100,000-d.w.t. tanker to $68 for a 300,000-tonner. Even the Japanese see an economic limit; they estimate that a 500,000-d.w.t. ship would cost them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shipping: Weakness in Size | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...multimillion-dollar business cannot be run on fun and flowers, the Beatles be latedly discovered after the death in 1967 of their canny manager and mentor, Brian Epstein. More interested in gadding about than tending to their enterprises, they left their convoluted corporate empire (see chart) to run on its own momentum. Inertia was not a successful philosophy. Three of the biggest companies in which the Beatles hold stakes have lately tumbled into trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Beatles Besieged | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...supported a film division that never made a movie. Even the Beatles' enormous earning capacities could no longer comfortably carry the load. Last year they closed Apple's mod boutique after opening the doors for a two-day giveaway of more than $100,000 worth of bellbottoms, see-through blouses and other clothes. Then they shut down Apple's film operation. The firm grossed little more than $500,000 in its first fiscal year ending last month. "We tried to be the Ford Foundation," said John Lennon. "It was rubbish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Beatles Besieged | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...companies added their 14% to Associated's holdings and made a deal in which it will name four of the six directors. Britain's High Court will decide next month on who should pay whom in the Nemperor case. As for Apple, it is too soon to see whether Klein's pruning will produce profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Beatles Besieged | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

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