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...European managerial system is apt to affront the U.S. businessman, but before the American congratulates himself too much, Granick suggests, he should consider the track record of European executives. Discounting the effects of the two World Wars, Granick calculates that ever since 1900, per capita economic expansion has been faster in West Germany, France and Britain than it has been...
When the greens are soggy with rain, when the sun bakes fairways hard as concrete, when stampeding galleries block the path to the pin, when the cash is on the barrelhead, then the grim men who play big-time golf for a living are apt to mutter: "It's a Palmer day." So Much Green. This year, any day is Arnie Palmer's day. Not since Bobby Jones won the U.S. and British amateurs, the U.S. and British opens in his "Grand Slam" year of 1930 has one player so dominated the game of golf. With 14 tournaments...
High comedy is often compared to the dance, but few performances justify that analogy with the grace that this one musters. Miss Cross, who began her career here as a choreographer, has blocked this production like a ballet. Her most apt pupil, David Gullette (Feste) capers and leaps about in endless motion. He and Adrienne Harris (Maria) continually struck just the right pitch of lightness...
Kennedy's toughest chore, if he intends to keep watch over wages and prices, is apt to come not with major unions but with the tangle of small and militant locals in the construction industry. Last week a strike of construction workers -and a likely lockout by employers - was threatening to paralyze building in Northern California. The locals involved demanded that their current hourly base wage ($3.23 to $3.47) be increased by a phenomenal $1.15 an hour over three years. Management offered 33?, and neither side was budging...
Nothing less is apt to lure Hughes...