Word: faster
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...might be expected, a comic invention of this sort is the mother of some fairly silly plot necessities. When Tony springs his FBI status on Janet, she thaws no faster than a glacier to a lighted match. But when he produces a TV prop department pistol and identity card, and shows her his clannish insigne of rank (four dots "tattooed" on his heel-"J. Edgar Hoover has seven"), Janet melts into a my-hero mood and virtually orders Tony to kiss-and-not-tell in the line of future duty. Fellow FBI-Fibster Dean gets an erotomaniacal glint...
...editions, speed of delivery is essential. With foreign printing plants and faster and farther-ranging air service, it is now possible to buy TIME in foreign capitals even before it reaches newsstands in some U.S. towns. Remote areas are still troublesome. After an irate subscriber in Tahiti complained that he was receiving his TIME in batches via bimonthly freighter from Nouméa in New Caledonia, TIME distribution men worked out a biweekly air-freight schedule; circulation in Tahiti has since climbed from 60 to 108. Readers in New Guinea, who long complained about slow service, now receive air-expressed...
...Dawn was far from done. Churning far faster than her rivals, she swept through four laps in the 55-yd. pool in 2:11.6, to slash a full 3.1 sec. from her world's record...
Anchors Aweigh. In Washington, a U.S. Navy pamphlet titled Executive Future: Officer Candidate School in the Navy comments: "Aircraft carriers are the back bone of a naval task force. They are slower than planes, but, of course, faster than fixed land installations...
...classic form, Parkinson's Law (TIME, Oct. 28, 1957) holds that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion," ergo, an organization's personnel mushrooms faster than mushrooms. In his earlier book, Author Parkinson also bantered entertainingly on how to tell somebodies from nobodies at cocktail parties (the somebodies come late and shun walls), how institutions achieve perfection of layout just before collapsing, and how the deliberations of any finance committee "will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved." The Law and the Profits, well illustrated by Cartoonist Robert C. Osborn, is twice...