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...When a weak direct current of electricity is passed through the cube, a thin line in its center glows with green-blue light. But this is not pure laser light. It is merely ordinary mixed-up light of varying frequencies. When the current passes a critical strength (120 amp. per sq. cm.), though, the light brightens enormously, turns intense blue, and forms an undiverging beam like a tight-stretched thread...
Before an executive comes, the company involved agrees to pay his expenses and salary for the time elapsed. With tuition $1750, room $285-300, board $700, and travel, entertainment and salary added to that; sending a man to the AMP program costs a firm about $5000. It must also pay a replacement during the executive's absence. "But it is a double training program in a sense," says William P. Gormbly, Director of the AMP program, "because a company is training the replacement for a responsible position at the same time its man is participating in the AMP program...
...AMPs' educational back-grounds vary tremendously. About twenty-five or thirty in each class have had engineering training. Others have bachelor degrees and some business education. For a few, it has been a matter of high school and night school courses afterwards. "But it's hard to judge which ones haven't been to college," one AMP declared...
...courses, the AMP is expected to have enough factual knowledge to be able to begin working on actual cases right from the start. Each AMP studies Business Policy, Administrative Practices, Business and the World Society, Cost and Financial Administration, Marketing Administration, and Problems in Labor Relations...
Usually, the AMP knows a great deal about one area and little about the others, and in order to be promoted he must be familiar with all. "I lean toward production," said...