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Gaining entry presents no problem to the skyscraper sneak. All he has to do is mingle with lunch-hour throngs, or wander through the halls affecting that where-is-the-personnel-department look, until he finds what he is really after. Thieves masquerade as job seekers, repairmen, delivery boys, messengers. And some manage to clean up simply by walking around with...
Route 66, for instance, has to do with two young men who wander about the U.S. in a Corvette seeking adventure (one of the sponsors: Chevrolet). But any single episode may end up dealing with anything from evangelism to sound engineering to murder. This is because of Silliphant's reluctance to write a script "unless there is a profound meaning." The meaning of Route 66, he says, has to do with "a search for identity in contemporary America. It is a show about a statement of existence. If anything, it is closer to Sartre and Kafka than to anything...
Today, ten years after the armistice of Panmunjom, the scars of fighting are partially hidden by underbrush, the trenches and foxholes have caved in, deer and an occasional bear wander where men fought and died for the three years of the Korean...
Marinas & Uranium. In search of diversification, Socony has in the past year investigated 123 projects, from oil-fired air conditioners to marinas and country clubs. Last week Socony bought nine plants producing paints and industrial coatings from Martin Marietta Corp. Some other companies wander farther afield: Kerr-McGee bought a railroad tie producer, Tidewater a uranium mine in Wyoming and the exploration rights for diamonds in Hottentot Bay, South West Africa. Kern County Land Co., a California oil producer, gets more than half its gross revenues from turning out auto parts...
...though those technical breakthroughs have increased the bewilderment and helplessness of TV repairmen. Motorola reckons that it has increased the productivity of its white-collar workers as much as 20% by giving them output standards to meet. In a popular new system called PACE, developed by Northrop Corp., inspectors wander through work areas recording what each employee is doing at any given moment and clocking time spent...