Word: slump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME cover stories have been concerned with the comic-strip world twice before; in 1947, we presented Milton Caniff, who was then about to launch Steve Canyon, and in 1950 we ventured into Dogpatch with Al Capp. Since those days, the comics have gone through a slump as well as a renaissance. For some time now, the editors have been considering the comics' new style. More and more the strips are offering political satire, psychology, and comments of varying subtlety on the rages and outrages of everyday life...
...fire, Hephaestus, the master craftsman who dwelt on Mount Olympus. Though ordinary Greek chariots lacked the gift of self-propulsion, the Greeks once led the ancient world in the production of wheeled vehicles. For the past several millennia, however, the Greek vehicle industry has been in quite a slump. In modern times, while such smaller nations as Portugal and Israel have managed to produce autos of their own, Greece has had no automotive industry...
...story at Chicago has been Bobby Hull, who scored his 37th goal in his 42nd game, and looked like a cinch to break the record of 50 goals in a season. But thanks to a knee injury and a slump, he has scored only one since, way back on February...
Building His Dream House. The price De Kooning commands is not negligible. Last month one of his works reached an alltime high auction price of $40,000. With his peers in the abstract expressionist movement either dead, like Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, or caught in a price slump, De Kooning finds his reputation still ascending. Last year he became the second painter (after Andrew Wyeth) to receive the President's Medal of Freedom, and presently finds dealers on both coasts bidding and jockeying for the honor of giving him a one-man show...
...Concaro cries: "I protest!" The argument grows in volume; the general draws an automatic pistol. One court official drops, shot twice in the stomach and once in the leg. The court usher charges boldly, then sprawls dead with three methodically aimed bullets in him. The judge intervenes, only to slump in his robes, critically wounded by four slugs. Finally a policeman slips behind the general, cuts him down with a burst from his submachine gun. Dying on the courtroom floor, General Concaro gasps: "I shot as a protest against bureaucracy. I am only sorry I fell in such a dishonorable...