Word: stampeders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A Princeton astronomer-mathematician, Lovett scoured the world's great universities to get ideas for infant Rice. He brought in such scholars as Julian Huxley, made sure that his first 77 freshmen ("these torchbearers of the sun dawn") meant business. When only 39 students stayed the route to graduation...
Who buys these records? Some of the country's best-known big companies (General Electric, Ford, TWA, IBM) go in heavily for salesmanship recordings, which are now published in short, 6½-minute segments. "We did have 30-minute records, but they were too hard to comprehend," explains the...
Crossing from Austria into Yugoslavia differs little from crossing any other Western European boundary. True, there is a double border, one for passport inspection, one for customs; and the customs official, a ruddy man with an immense fur overcoat and Russian style hat, is even more humorless than his American...
Primitive Pooling. Monnet's tough peasant heritage is stamped in his broad face and his short, stocky, muscular body. His paternal grandfather, a farmer-mayor of Cognac, lived to the age of 102. Jean Monnet's mother lived to be 87, his father, Jean Gabriel, to 83. A...
These "soldier-industrialists" hold "sales conferences" and order subaltern flacks to tailor the corporate image. A photographer is told to do a general "from his good side only." From relatively safe distances, the symbolic big guns pump shells at the enemy. At the apex of this busy wedge of "middlemen...