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...turned fashion model, the blond, handsome senior splashes through a tough routine four hours daily, gradually shortening the distances he swims and steadily stepping up the pace. "It's just like a pyramid," says Bittick. "You start at the bottom and work up to the peak...
...East German aircraft industry was a prestige project ramrodded through in 1954 by Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht himself. Jeering at West German airlines for buying foreign planes, the East Germans poured $150 million into outfitting six plants, which at their peak employed some 26,000 workers turning out Russian null In 1959, with much fanfare, the East Germans brought out their new, home-grown 66-152 turbojet airliner. The first 86-152 prototype crashed on its maiden flight-a disaster that was officially attributed to "sabotage" by Designer Manfred Gerlach (TIME, Sept. 12). While other engineers have been trying...
...thing, he was so anxious to please Victoria's consort, the German Prince Albert, that his paintings took on the dead, glassy surface favored by the Germans. From then on, everything about his work degenerated. His famous Monarch of the Glen-a postcard stag perched upon an improbable peak-was painted for the refreshment room of the House of Lords, but Commons, in its homely wisdom, never got around to voting the money. His Dignity and Impudence is a coyly saccharine affair showing a drooping bloodhound trying to be oblivious to a cocky terrier sharing his kennel. And when...
...markets in which at least 6% of the local work force is without jobs. That brought the total of such areas in March to 101-fully two-thirds of all the nation's major industrial areas, and the highest such total on record. In the 1958 recession the peak was only 89 areas. The Labor Department also announced that the consumer price index, which dropped in January for the first time in 13 months, rose one-tenth of 1% in February to return to December's alltime high of 127.5% of the 1947-49 average...
...start of a full recovery? Stock market investors clearly believe that a full recovery is ready to get under way. In brisk and broad trading, the market gained 12.92 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average, closed the week at 676.48, only nine points below its alltime peak...