Word: within
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cooperative apartment to his office only once or twice a month to examine the new models for the many Mies-designed buildings now under way.*Still, those who saw the museum in Berlin agreed that it may well be Mies' masterpiece, the ultimate in unusual, unadorned space enclosed within a pristine cube...
...final details of the scheme in Basel, the signs of a monetary storm were all too evident. Buffeted by the Czech crisis and persistent clamor for an upward revaluation of the strong West German deutschmark (a move that was drawing money out of London), the pound had sunk to within a whisker of its post-devaluation low of $2.38¼ in foreign exchange centers. Harold Lever, financial secretary to the British Treasury and a key figure in selling the scheme abroad, noted: "If the agreement had not been achieved, there would have been a real danger of sudden and uncoordinated...
...that public role, he defended his calling at the drop of an invitation against what he considered to be false charges of economic waste and social immorality. "Attacks on a so-called 'Madison Avenue,' " he said, "are in reality disguised attacks on our free-enterprise system itself." Within the industry, Strouse made many other speeches, and there his message was different. Advertising might not be immoral or wasteful, but he conceded that some of it-not, of course, from J. Walter Thompson-was too often brassy and offensive. "Every single advertisement," he insisted, "must win its own right...
Although the move had the government's blessing, the merger between British G.E. and English Electric into Britain's sixth largest company (combined sales: $2.2 billion) raised fears of monopoly both within and outside the electrical industry. The new firm would rank among the world's five biggest electrical companies, accounting for 90% of Britain's output of railway locomotives and up to half of the country's turbo generators, switchgear and transformers. The potential of the new combine's market domination prompted executives of Plessey Co. Ltd., a smaller electrical firm, to denounce...
Critical Cascade. Sheed, who is married and has three children, does his writing in a studio on Manhattan's West Side. With one of his cherished Hoyo de Monterey cigars always within reach, he scribbles in longhand with a No. 2 pencil. He half-consciously removes his clothes as he works. Precisely why he does that is a mystery but, whatever the reason, it enables him to produce a cascade of critical pieces in addition to his fiction. He is book editor of Commonweal, film critic for Esquire, and a freelance reviewer for at least half a dozen other...