Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unraveling even in Eric Bentley's swift and supple version. In a historical pageant held 20 years before the action of the play begins in 1922, an Italian noble man (Kenneth Haigh) had his horse tripped by a rival for his mistress' favors. After the fall he went mad, imagining himself to be the character he had been impersonating in the pageant, the 11th century Emperor Henry IV of Germany. He lived in a villa complete with throne, courtiers and artifacts of the period. For the first twelve years after his accident, the pseudo Emperor lived out this...
After a year at Dartmouth and an engineering degree from M.I.T. ('36), Bunkie went to work for a Detroit machine shop. He reached Pontiac in 1939 as a menial "tool chaser." Then, for a decade, he tried out anything that might broaden his experience from defense-plant inspector to car-assembly superintendent...
Despite the risks, it can be immensely profitable. Adman Marion Harper Jr. became head of McCann-Erickson in 1948 at 32, spun the outfit into the vast Interpublic Group (advertising, public relations, market research) and racked up billings of $700 million a year by last fall. When Interpublic went deep into debt, he was eased into a powerless chairmanship (TIME, Dec. 15). But when he was eased out altogether two weeks ago, Harper was not exactly out of pocket. Interpublic was reported to have bought back his 100,000 shares in the company, worth $2,200,000 at book value...
...hero was a bent-nosed ex-pug who seemed too ugly even for character parts. His co-star was a round-eyed windup doll from Iowa whose debut had been a disaster. The director, an impoverished movie critic, made up the script as he went along, and shot much of the film by pushing his photographer around in a wheelchair, screaming instructions at the players...
After intense effort, the cryptanalysts arrived at a good pencil-and-paper analogue of the Purple Code. That was only the beginning. From there they went on to construct their own model of Japan's encoding machine, which "spewed sparks and made loud whirring noises," but worked...