Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sort of balanced cousin of the sicknik comedians, Newhart vaguely follows their technique and style, but delivers his material in quiet, well-scrubbed Midwestern inflections that keep things from toppling over the brink of sanity. As a driving instructor, he maintains classroom calm while he sits in the front seat of a car with a lady who goes 75 in her driveway. As an eager 1904 entrepreneur, he tries to start transcontinental passenger service at once by putting a toilet on the Wright brothers' plane. As a stiff-lipped submarine commander, he tells the crew: "I think our firing...
...even greater because fewer patients were admitted around full moon. "Perhaps," he suggests, tongue slightly in cheek, "laymen know more about this than we do and are reluctant to enter the hospital at this time." To make doubly sure of his findings, Dr. Andrews got a colleague to keep the same type of records-with the same results...
Hollow Stones. "I have learned to respect mechanical equipment," Kahn says. "You can't keep the gimmicks out, so you have to plan for them so they won't ruin your building later." The need to incorporate air conduits and the whole ganglion of mechanical equipment led Kahn to conceive of columns as "hollow stones" in which the clutter could be stored. From there it was only a step to dividing spaces into major, clear areas and subsidiary "servant spaces." By making this distinction, Kahn has revived functionalism once again as a springboard for esthetics...
...orders while they work off the huge inventories built up right after the steel strike. Despite the auto industry's heavy production schedule, many auto firms still have an inventory of 30 to 45 days, v. the normal 20-day supply. Instead of ordering new steel to keep pace with production, they are taking half their current needs from inventory. Appliance, farm-machinery and construction-machinery industries are also raiding their large inventories instead of ordering steel at their production rates. The oil industry is one of the few that are actually using less steel. Because of the slowdown...
...risen from a part-time, null security analyst, who had to teach Hebrew on the side to make ends meet, to boss of the big Rapid-American Corp.. a widely diversified manufacturing outfit. Rapid Riklis, who will also be president of the $120 million McCrory Corp., plans to keep right on moving fast. Says he: "This is a strong company. We have $40 million cash in the till. We are going to expand and diversify...