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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vienna-born, Koerner came to the U.S. in 1939, lives in a Victorian gingerbread-style house in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill section. His new pictures deal, often harshly and always provocatively, with the basic human condition, especially in America. As pictures, they have beauty, but their content is seldom beautiful. "America's beauty," Koerner jauntily explains, "is in its ugliness...
Three Classes. Drug firms, said Connor, fall into three classes: 1) "creators"; 2) "molecule manipulators" who change basic drugs around but seldom score "home runs"; and 3) "coattail riders." who do no research, wait for a market to develop, then jump...
...Thousand Yards from Work. To be closer to his work, Mortimer built a nine-room house about a thousand yards from the company building in White Plains, N.Y., dubbed it "Done Commuting." He is devoted to his family, seldom brings his briefcase home or does business entertaining there. He and his wife Elizabeth (everybody calls her "Jerry") were married 32 years ago (his first wife died in childbirth), have a married daughter Mary and three sons: Charles Greenough, 33, and John, 30, both married and working in advertising, and Lee, 19, a sophomore at Denison University...
...billion to become effectively operational, drags along on $300 million year-to-year handouts. Promoted by Army as a solution to the near-impossible anti-missile defense role, Nike-Zeus gets neither the funds necessary for speedup nor the kill order recommended by its critics. One factor: the Pentagon, seldom free to make decisions that are purely military, fears the panic and congressional uproar that would be set off by admission that the U.S. owns no hopeful anti-missile missile...
...allow them to determine whether he would make an effort for the nomination, reflects his faith in the techniques of Madison Avenue. These techniques include his fine large staff which creates an aura of organization and efficiency that permeates all his activities. The staff has seldom slipped. One of the times it did was in Providence, where Rockefeller, not knowing what he was talking about, hastily supported the student loyalty affidavit in the NDEA...