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The Cruelest Jest. The stage is set for the extramarital affair, frequently the office romance. The office romance thrives on contiguity, opportunity, and the fact that love feeds on shared experience. The man looks across the desk at this sweet young thing, and she stirs memories of playful erotic tenderness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Demography: The Command Generation | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

Though he can make any flippancy sound quotable just by arching his eyebrows over it, Grant is never left on his own to build a flimsy notion into a one-man show. Sol Saks's dialogue bristles amiably from first to last, and when blithe spirits threaten to overflow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Olympic Clowning | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

Vatican Foundations. Completing projects at a rate of $200 million yearly are more than a dozen sizable Italian companies and several smaller ones. This month two Rome firms, Comtec and Ircom, jointly signed to build a 20-story skyscraper in Uganda's capital of Kampala. A group of three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Building Like the Caesars | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

Manhattan's Grand Old Lady of 39th Street, the Metropolitan Opera House, has a lot of friends to save her from Götterdämmerung. A committee has been lobbying to prevent the building from being demolished to make way for an office skyscraper. Trouble is, the Met...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 27, 1966 | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

Among Father Dan's other current concerns are construction of a 20-story skyscraper in Lima, a plan to secure $9,430,000 in new capital with two other savings and loan operators to set up a new housing-construction bank, and a $1,000,000 loan request to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: Father Dan the Money Man | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

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