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Hilton Hotels' Carte Blanche club, in serious financial trouble a year ago, anticipates that this year it will at best break even. The three-year-old American Express plan has yet to show a profit. Diners' Club, the granddaddy of the card clubs, watched profits from business with 1,200,000 cardholders slip 21% during the first half of the current fiscal year, under the pressure of increased competition and the recession. Disenchanted, after twelve years of catering exclusively to the credit demands of wining, dining and traveling Americans, Diners' Club last year bought an industrial finance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Credit: Losses at Cards | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

...teacher who is sickened to find that she is partly homosexual. Though the taboo word "lesbian" does not defile the sound track, the handling of "that kind of love" is reasonably adult (it is customary to praise Hollywood for being reasonably adult, as one praises a three-year-old for not spilling too much oatmeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: That Kind of Love | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

Love & Loathing. Houseman's other job is artistic director of Los Angeles' three-year-old Theater Group, which, helped by a Ford Foundation grant and run by the adult education branch of U.C.L.A., presents first-rate stage productions, drawing from an eager pool of movie and television actors. Anxious to get away from the flabby, fragmented routine of working on motion pictures or taping TV shows, the actors are willing to work for Equity minimum just to submit themselves to the sterner discipline of the stage. Robert Ryan starred in the group's Sodom and Gomorrah, Nina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage: The Moonlighter | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

After Syria's breakaway last September, the three-year-old United Arab States consisted only of two members-Egypt and tiny, backward Yemen. Last week, Nasser kicked out Yemen. With Egypt thus turned into a federation of one but still clinging to the now meaningless title of United Arab Republic, Nasser promised new glories for "Arab socialism," started off by lavishly insulting his old Arab enemies and generally agitating the Middle East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: Koran v. Socialism | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...Based on a three-year-old Rand Corp. estimate of the radiation that worldwide fallout from a relatively small (20,000-megaton) attack would scatter on fields, woods and other parts of "the natural environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Save Those Pine Seeds! | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

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