Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sincere and decent man. He appears to have more to be proud of than to hide. There were still scattered reports of strong-arm repressions: 20 arrests in the city of Santiago. the "accidental" death of a youth jailed for ripping Trujillo's picture off a nightclub wall. The government outlawed the far-left Movimiento Popular Dominicano...
...cities will be permanently and happily solved. But little by little, Americans are learning to beat the frenzy with the imaginative use of modern techniques. One successful device: permanent television. Executives of the First National City Bank of New York, for example, use closed circuit television between midtown and Wall Street offices to avoid time-wasting and frustrating travel between two points that are 82 carbon-filled blocks apart...
...offices, the bank needed a way to coordinate executive operations and communications as if the offices were not really separated. The money committee, for instance, meets every morning. The bankers at the midtown offices at Park Avenue and 53rd Street assemble in their conference room while their colleagues on Wall Street gather in theirs. With cameras trained on each group, and with two TV screens picturing each scene, the members conduct their business as if they were together in one room. Staging plays no part in the meetings; the bankers do not even bother to wear the nonreflecting blue shirts...
...manner of cinema divines and photographers' models in spaghetti ads, but otherwise he shows no evidence of sainthood. He floats through the film wearing at all times a smile of seraphic boobery, and his followers grin constantly at whatever faces them: another actor, a tree, a blank wall...
...volume of trading stays high-is Norman Hirschfield, 51, new chairman of Teleregister Corp., which makes and operates stock market quotation boards. Last week Hirschfield had bullish news for his stockholders: first-half 1961 earnings reached nearly $500,000, v. a $20,000 deficit in first-half 1960. A Wall Street office boy at 14, Hirschfield became vice president of a brokerage house at 20, got friendly with Big Investor Charles Allen (who holds a dominant interest in Teleregister), was made chairman of Allen's ACF-Wrigley food stores before taking his new job. Hirschfield now plans to market...