Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Public Eye-two thematically related one-acters by Peter Shaffer, author of Five Finger Exercise (Oct. 9). Eric Portman stars in a British sex comedy called All in Good Time (Nov. 23). And Claudette Colbert and Cyril Ritchard open Sept. 18 in The Irregular Verb to Love, about a sweet London lady who keeps blowing up furrier shops because she loves animals...
...fast-writing pen for oscillographs, developed by Stanford University Electrical Engineer Richard Sweet, uses a vibration hardly as violent as a shiver to write a permanent record of oscilloscope traces that have only been caught in the past by delicate and expensive motion picture film. Spewed through a tiny nozzle, the ink droplets pick up a charge from an electrode attached to an oscilloscope. Then they fall, at the rate of 100,000 a second, between two electrically charged plates and hit a rapidly moving roll of recording paper. Each drop carries an electric charge that mirrors the changing electrical...
Died. Clifford Odets, 57, social-protest playwright during the Great Depression (Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing), later a highly paid writer of slick movie scripts . (Sweet Smell of Success); of cancer; in Los Angeles. The contrast between Odets' early proletarian dramas and his Hollywood work inspired the celebrated jab, "Odets, where is thy sting...
France's decision last week to build a monumental new "Museum of the 20th Century" gives sweet vindication to two great artists. One is Swiss-born Le Corbusier (TIME cover, May 5, 1961), who has worked in Paris for 39 years and has never received a major commission in his adopted city. He will design the building, doing everything, as usual, right down to the doorknobs. The other is the late Georges Rouault, who once outraged France by burning 315 of his own paintings. The new museum will devote ten of its galleries to Rouault, including 1,000 oils...
...Pepsi-Cola has introduced its "Patio" family of five different flavors. Both companies report that the low-calorie beverages have not cut sales of the con ventional colas; instead they have lured customers who seldom before bought soft drinks. Though distribution expenses run high, sugar-free drinks bring sweet profits because they cost less to make...