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...palmier days, the New York Stock Exchange sought to preserve its affluent image and guard against conflicts of interest by sternly forbidding licensed security salesmen of member brokerage firms to take a second job. Lately, however, the exchange has had to greatly relax its longstanding rule against moonlighting. Reason: thousands of expensively trained sales specialists were leaving the brokerage business for other fields, as the stock market's deepening slump dried up commissions. Today, more and more securities salesmen who want to stay in the business and yet continue to eat are doing after-hours stints as bartenders, models...
...Affluent white women show more ambivalence toward careers than do others. Horner has found that 29% of black female students are fearful compared with 88% of the whites. Explains...
Alfred B. Del Bello, 39, is the first Democrat ever elected county executive of affluent Westchester, N.Y. (pop. 900,000). A two-term city councilman in Yonkers, N.Y., he ran as the underdog for mayor in 1969 and won, the first Democrat to do so in 32 years. In two terms, the Fordham-educated lawyer cleaned up corruption, balanced the budget and restored Yonkers, his birthplace, to a semblance of civic health. Since his upset victory last year, which made him the youngest county executive in Westchester's history, he has laid plans for recycling garbage into energy...
...days as U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. After a brief stint in investment banking, Rumsfeld was elected Congressman from suburban Chicago's affluent North Shore in 1962, earned a reputation as a moderate conservative. In 1969 President Nixon persuaded him to give up a promising House career to direct the Office of Economic Opportunity. Appointed to NATO in 1973, he may be thinking of taking on Governor Daniel Walker...
...highly successful style-typified by such contributors as Tom Wolfe, Gail Sheehy and Economist "Adam Smith." Although it adopted some of the Voice's interests and also produces excellent coverage of politics and communications, New York set its prime sights on the glossy worries and aspirations of more affluent New Yorkers, telling them how to recognize the best of everything and where to buy it. If the Voice tries to counter the reigning establishment of the moment, New York seeks to create the next...