Word: impactions
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...this age of electronic marvels, everyone is familiar with the way television, the daily newspapers, and newsmagazines such as TIME can quickly round up the impact of an important news event on capitals round the world. This week's special cover on Khrushchev (his tenth appearance on TIME'S cover since 1953), and our related stories on nuclear testing, are distillations of thousands of words filed from Washington, London, Berlin, Moscow, Paris, Belgrade, Delhi and elsewhere...
...weapon, the 100-megaton bomb would be sheer waste, for there is no major city in the world that cannot be wiped out with one well-directed 20-meg-aton bomb. But for scare value, such a bomb has its own impact. And Nikita Khrushchev was seeking scare value with a vengeance last week. Even as he rattled his H-bombs, the Red army was announcing extended tours of service for Russian soldiers due to be discharged in coming months...
...viewer almost feet first, and thus fore shortened. The Christ carries the experiment to the ultimate, and the effect is something of a shock. The greenish corpse fills almost the entire canvas, the marks of suffering still plain to see. The ungainly intimacy of the portrayal has an impact of its own: few portrayals of the Pieta evoke such a powerful sense of grief and of pity for the tortured Christ-or of outrage for his murderers...
...celebrated episode of The Hucksters, the novel's autocratic soap tycoon (fictional counterpart of Tobacco Baron George Washington Hill) demonstrated the impact of the hard sell with a simple gesture: he spat on the boardroom table. In many contemporary board rooms, the demonstration might have succeeded only in getting the chairman's shoes wet. Reason: the latest trend in office design is the tableless board room...
With all these promising new markets opening up. Kaiser Aluminum Vice President Ward C. Humphreys last week told a House subcommittee (which is studying the impact of aluminum imports that have captured 10% of the U.S. market) that the domestic industry will double in size by 1970. For the shorter range future, Harvey Aluminum's energetic Chairman Lawrence A. Harvey pointed to the industry's current 82% operating rate and said: "Any modest upturn in the economy will dry up the so-called excess capacity. The aluminum companies are not tearing down any plants-are they? In fact...