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...poor Texas farmer, Mize dropped out of the University of Houston and went to work as a bench hand for an oil-exploration company. He moved up to become a salesman and then climbed through a succession of corporate jobs to become president of Mandrel Industries, an oilfield-equipment manufacturer. Naturally, he bought some stock in Mandrel and, when the company was sold in 1963, he had a bankroll...
...beautiful cover story about Johnny Bench. This is a refreshing detour around war, crime, drugs...
...TIME really blow it. And we in Pittsburgh know it. Bench is something you sit on. Best catcher is Manny Sanguillen...
...Johnny Bench is a better catcher than Manny Sanguillen of the Pittsburgh Pirates, then Fidel Castro works for Gillette...
...places 79% of the graduates. Half of RCA's nontenured faculty lack college degrees, but nearly all have job experience. Such a practical approach attracts students like Angelo Miranda, 24, who briefly considered going to college, then decided, "What I'm really after is money." His bench mate, Robert Sandberg, 19, a dropout from the City University of New York, agrees: "As a technician, you can still get rich." Katharine Gibbs, which graduates 2,000 secretaries a year from five East Coast sites, requires relentless drill in typing, shorthand and other office skills ("It's the most...