Word: develop
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...artists seems to have come along since Ross's day. Best of the new crop: Short-Story Writer John Updike. The magazine still has a first-rate music critic in Winthrop Sargeant, but most of its critical departments have lost their edge. The magazine has been unable to develop a book critic to rival Clifton Fadiman at his best, or of the stature of Edmund Wilson, whose occasional New Yorker reviews, however, run more often to the heavy than to the brilliant...
...Soviet military has shown no interest in matching the U.S. effort to develop small or "clean" atomic bombs. As far as Western intelligence can establish, the Russians' chief effort is to make the bombs for these bombers as big and dirty as possible...
...Morris Lapidus of Miami Beach is simple and to the point: put your money where it shows. Such cathedrals of pleasure as the Eden Roc, Americana and Fontainebleau (pronounced Fountain Blue) hotels give abundant evidence that Lapidus is a disciple of excess. With freewheeling showmanship, he is trying to develop an "alphabet of ornament" that will provoke an emotional revolt against the austerity of modern architecture. In the midway atmosphere of Miami Beach and other resort areas, Lapidus, 57, finds the perfect outlet for the "new sensuality" expressed in his terrazzoed palazzos. "They call my hotels corn," he says proudly...
Loudon anticipated the nationalistic pressures of the postwar era, began pushing for more local nationals in executive spots, and has since turned company policy completely around. The company spends about $7,400,000 a year to develop promising talent in the countries where it operates. It has 60 young executives of 27 nationalities working around the world, frequently cross-posts them (a Filipino to Lebanon, a Moroccan to Indonesia). To help its Middle East salesmen describe their products, it hired Lebanese Poet George Silisty to devise a dictionary of new Arabic terms to suit the modern petroleum industry...
Transit I-B (an attempt to send Transit I-A into orbit failed last September) is only the first basic step in a process that is expected to take two years to develop. Many of the first press stories excitedly treated it as though it were already an operational system. It is not-however dramatic its promise for the future...