Word: teller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Medeia. While this anonymous poet is only a neutral observer, he tries desperately to alter the course of events by reconciling the couple. Only Medeia can see him, and she thinks he's a devil. Gardner's helpless narrator is the hilarious antithesis to the traditional omniscient, omnipotent story-teller. At one point he is actually transformed into flesh and almost killed in a Corinthian slave uprising. While this clown stumbles about Corinth like Jimmy Olson, cub reporter for the Daily Planet, Superman Gardner delves into more universal themes, mustering all of his authorial prowess to drastically alter the mythic...
...Cambodia, where virtually everyone has a favorite fortune teller, the advice of astrologers often determines whether armies advance, governments fall or prime ministers take trips. When rebels bombed his presidential palace recently, Marshal Lon Nol was rumored to have fired some of his senior soothsayers. Last week TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand ventured into the back streets of Phnom-Penh to visit a gray-haired old astrologer whose clients include the marshal himself. Hillenbrand's report...
...bookings to bring foreign tourists into the U.S. this year, triple the number in 1972. The American Express credit card gained a million new holders last year, increasing its membership to 5,000,000, partly by signing up such U.S. department stores as Macy's and Bonwit Teller, in addition to hotels and restaurants. Indeed the "Money Card" has become the most widely held among the so-called "travel and entertainment" cards. As a result, Diners Club (1,850,000 holders) and Carte Blanche (700,000) have lately begun advertising their cards as supplements, rather than competitors...
...Berlin, 27 years after he was condemned to death by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 23 years after he was reported to be alive in Russia, 21 years after he was said to be a monk in Italy, and less than half a year after Spy-Story Teller Ladislas Farrago claimed that he was still living as a millionaire in Argentina, a West German court last week formally pronounced the Nazi leader dead−along with all the rumors about his escape...
Unions representing employees of some retail chains, including locals at E.J. Korvette and Grand Union, have won contract provisions severely limiting lie-detector tests. A few stores, like New York's Bonwit Teller, have abandoned tests on sales personnel because of worker opposition. And many executives, whether out of consideration for good employee relations or philosophical conviction, will have nothing to do with the machine...