Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after a decision to go ahead. Other economists recall that Special Drawing Rights-so-called "paper gold"-took five years to move from the status of a radical academic idea to a reform that the 111 IMF nations are actually about to institute. However long reform may take, more and more moneymen regard the crawling peg as an idea whose time has come...
...records on 3,000 men from ten corporations since 1960. They have divided their subjects into two groups. The "A" man is aggressive and harddriving, the kind of competitor who hates to lose. He is almost surely heading for trouble. The "B" man is more relaxed. He does not take his problems away from the office, and he is occasionally late to work. He also lives longer. Since the study began, 250 of its subjects have had heart attacks-nearly three out of four were "A" men. "The old Horatio Alger story," says Dr. Friedman, "is becoming the biggest killer...
Next Target. The industry timetable would obviously ease the shock of ending the ads-which may not be much of a shock after all. Presumably, the broadcasters would also be allowed to phase out those FCC-required free anti-smoking commercials, which take up $70 million worth of air time a year. Some but by no means all of the loss from cigarette commercials would be made up by the fast-diversifying tobacco companies themselves. As they cut back their cigarette ad budgets, they would spend more on their non-tobacco products...
...fadeout can come fast enough to please the cigarette's most zealous opponents. Utah's Moss feels that the N.A.B. plan "may take too long." And he is anxious to move on to his next target: cigarette ads in printed media...
...Brooklyn Bridge" describes the noon light biting into Wall Street. As a poet, Crane sought "surrender to the sensations of urban life." Out of such sensations, he said, he hoped to forge "a mystical synthesis of America," for which (he told his perplexed patron, Otto Kahn) "one might take the Sistine Chapel as an analogy...