Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...know until we are but so far we've done fine and have two children, spaced right, and they will be our family since we believe in birth control. Msgr. De Blanc ties a good knot. As a prophet and a psychiatrist, he falls flat on his face...
Easily the least attractive product of Detroit since the exhaust pipe, Disk Jockey Tom Clay seemed to have hit the final groove last fall when, on the testimony of a rock-'n'-roll promoter sometimes known as Nivens the Nightshade, he was caught flat out accepting large scoops of payola. Clay candidly discussed his history on the take and became one of the most celebrated ex-deejays in the U.S. Last week Deejay Clay was not only spinning once again, but to Detroit's shocked surprise, he was doing it for WQTE, a more-filtered-than-thou...
...requests for performances of everything from Mozart to Schoenberg; out of the box come twice-weekly concerts played in a converted cow barn by some of the world's most famed and gifted instrumentalists. Last week the barn echoed to Beethoven's Sextet in E-Flat, Martinu's Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola and Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. Occasion: a concert at Vermont's Marlboro Festival, now celebrating its tenth season...
Swirbul was constantly thinking up schemes to raise morale and lower absenteeism. He set up a "green truck" service to cruise the parking lot and change flat tires. Later, when Grumman Aircraft employed 8,000 women, many of them housewives, the green trucks would run errands for them, check to see if the windows were down in their homes and the iron turned off. He built baseball diamonds, organized a band to play for dancing at lunchtime. To promote a company spirit, Swirbul set up a bonus system based not on individual performance, but on the plant's total...
...times the capacity of smaller truck lifts), has 6-ft.-high tires, and two sets of controls, between which the operator in his air-conditioned cab can swing to keep his view unblocked. It can lift a trailer carrying half a dozen autos, hoist truck trailers on and off flat cars in rail road piggybacking. Ford has ordered five for its steel division. Price: $90,000 each...