Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Besides his challenges in space, Mueller faces an earthly problem at NASA. Holmes was an ebullient manager, ran an exciting shop. Since his resignation announcement, his men have lost a lot of their old moon-ho spirit. "It's no fun to work here any more," a NASA spaceman recently grumbled. Mueller has a big job ahead just getting morale back into orbit...
...Monday for fear of public wrath. Monday night on La Cienega is quite possibly not only the best free show in town but also one of the most popular institutions in Los Angeles County. It has its own traditions: a sculpture of a crouching nude girl outside one shop bristles with notes that have been tucked under her arm, into the crooks of knees and elbows. The young lady has been adopted by the La Cienega crowd as a bulletin board through which friend can tell friend which gallery he may be in at any particular time...
Westinghouse had all the challenges an efficiency expert needed: much of its equipment and many of its methods were obsolete. As vice president in charge of manufacturing, Burnham played the key role in a new automation program, systematically changed Westinghouse from a "job shop" type of operation to the latest assembly-line methods, which saved the company millions. On one occasion he whimsically presented an ancient drill press with a 50-year service ribbon before junking it. When he took over the industrial-products division, he launched a study to determine how to make every product more cheaply and simply...
...theatre's facilities ingeniously. The first scene, aboard the ship Empress Pantagonia, opens on the couple seated on deck chairs in front of several blue, paint-spattered screens whose swirling color suggests the ocean. Later the same screens serve as an inconspicuous backdrop for an attractive and colorful village-shop counter where the writer again meets the shopgirl...
...bring the character to life with remarkable naturalness. The sparkle of her eyes as she spoke and the adroitness with which she changed facial expressions and movements created humor in the domineering character of Miss Z. Subsequently, it became perfectly understandable to the audience that the persistent shop girl would not only improve the writers manners and make him a satisfied shop keeper, but get him to fall in love with her in the bargain. The play's final moments, when the guidebook writer becomes aware of his affection for her and finally accepts her proposal of marriage, were played...