Word: apts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your description of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith as "part of American folklore" is more apt than you probably intended. Apparently even TIME has fallen for the myth that Merrill Lynch pays salesmen salaries rather than commissions (not true-compensation is directly related to production) and that it doesn't sell mutual funds because of a possible conflict for research ideas between mutual funds and individual customers (reality: customers' balances diverted into mutual funds are no longer available to salesmen...
...Marden's view, it will all be to the good. Himself a senior partner in White & Case, a prestigious Wall Street firm, Marden has long been a leader of the legal-aid movement. The poor, he thinks, "are more apt to become good citizens, more apt to observe the law, and to regard the law as their friend rather than their enemy," once they discover that "the law protects them to the same extent that it protects the wealthiest person in the land...
...admissions system as the crucial factor in a debate as to how liberal social rules could be. "Harvard has a very strict selection system, and we know what kind of people we have here and what to expect from them," Baird says. The girls here during the summer are apt to be less responsible with their freedom than Radcliffe girls, he explains...
...responsibility. Whatever the wife is doing on her rounds, the husband and his secretary are doing something in common that draws them intensively closer, whether it is planning an ad layout or drafting a new skyscraper. Assuming the girl is about 20 years younger than the man, she is apt to find him not only more affluent, but considerably more interesting company than the boys in her own age group. It is worth remembering that it was on the set of To Have and Have Not that Bogey, married and 44, and Betty, single and 19, fell in love...
...Wilcock (an original staffer on the now middle-aged Village Voice), and a presumably popular feature called "Slum Goddess," which consists of photographs of young girls who radiate "antiEstablishment qualities." The want ads are blunt and to the point. Sample: "Groovy, free spirit chick wanted to share West Village apt. with guy, 27. No rent...