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...diabolically clever guise of a self-help manual, The S-Man aims a good Swiftian kick at the cult and cultists of success. A British export, the book lacks the clubby good humor of Parkinson and Potter, substitutes instead the wittily barbed aphorisms of the success man's ascent ("New friends are best friends"). Cocktail party Platos will find a host of new S-Man concepts, including the Inhibition Barrier, the Law of Party Parity, and the Prostitute's Fallacy ("A sign of stagnancy is to do the same thing again for the same amount of money...
Last week, on the seventh day of their ascent, the four men finally stalked up the last, sloping ice field and stood to gether in blinding sunlight at the summit...
...perfectly willing for it to go out of business-it's not worth saving at that price." As usual, the debate is likely to focus most sharply on what workers are to be included on the minimum-wage elevator, rather than on the elevator's rate of ascent. While hourly wages under the law have been hiked four times from the original minimum of 25? in 1938 to $1 in 1956. coverage has never been expanded, in fact has slightly contracted. The minimum level has seldom reached half the average U.S. hourly wage, now $2.32. but fewer than...
...hours Dave Rearick, 28, a Ph.D. in mathematics from Caltech, and Bob Kamps, 26, a fourth-grade teacher in North Hollywood, stood on a ledge called Broadway and studied the wall looming over their heads. Then Rearick began the ascent. It took him half an hour to reach a narrow shelf 75 ft. up and toss down a rope for Kamps. From then on, their progress was measured in hours and inches. At dusk, they huddled on a tiny ledge, drove pitons into the sheer rock face and dozed through a night of wind and cold, lashed to the Diamond...
...might have quit except we burned our bridges behind us when we pulled most of our pitons," said Rearick. "We could never have gotten back down to Broadway." Then he made a terse entry in the logbook at the summit of Longs Peak: "First ascent of the Diamond...