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...Wayne Addison, 39, of Kokomo, Ind., lost his job with Chrysler last August, and has seven children to support, but claims not to be worried. "We've been cutting corners for years," he says. Addison's wife returned to work testing transistors at Delco, a division of General Motors. He buys most of the family groceries directly from farms, spending only $55 a week on food. Addison also barters his services, repairing a neighbor's clothes dryer in exchange for a new shirt. Still, Addison is bothered that his two eldest daughters must pay most...
Eisenhower had his ileitis symptoms, and Kennedy went into power with a form of Addison's disease. Johnson had suffered his first heart attack, and Nixon was shadowed by phlebitis. Ford's otherwise robust physique was flawed by old football injuries. Carter came to the White House with his record showing a period of depression after a race for Governor of Georgia...
...however, a much less recognized proposition is being advanced: the real secret of Japan's success is better management, especially in personnel policy. That is the thesis of an inscrutably titled book, Theory Z, by U.C.L.A. Management Professor William Ouchi that will be published in April by Addison-Wesley...
...cruised on Long Island Sound, the public was told that the President had had some bad teeth extracted. The public did not know about Woodrow Wilson's stroke, nor were voters told about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's failing heart. John F. Kennedy spoke to intimates of "my Addison's disease," but the public was told that he had "a partial adrenal insufficiency." Dwight Eisenhower was the exception. After he was felled by a heart attack, he and his physicians chose full medical disclosure, issuing daily bulletins that went so far as to describe presidential bowel movements. Lyndon...
...style of revelation. Writing for a half-century under the pen-name of "Genet" for The New Yorker, Flanner generally focused her discriminating eye upon the social and artistic elite of Europe. Her work often recalls the advocacy for taste and manners so prominent in the pioneering efforts of Addison and Steele; at other times, Flanner inserts herself neatly into the turmoil of the age, observing a bankrupt Berlin of 1931 or reflecting upon the fate of Warsaw some time after the ghetto uprising. But whether she writes about manners or history, Flanner always manages to construct her point...