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...Pitcher Earl Wilson negotiate his baseball contract. A few fast deals later and Woolf suddenly realized: "Oh wow, this is an area that's been virtually untapped." Tapping away like a trip hammer ever since, he has become the most successful of the new and growing breed of sport lawyer-managers. He now has a stable of 200 pro basketball, baseball, football and hockey athletes. "I have to pinch myself," he says, "to believe a local attorney like me has a national business like this. It's unbelievable...
...rule for years was that the only wise investment was the one that turned a profit. An investor troubled by the idea of financing the military-industrial complex, pollution or racist hiring practices had to hunt up "clean" stocks on his own. Now, however, there is a new breed of mutual funds that caters to the customer with social scruples...
...secure possession of the earth under their feet." He also was struck by the candor of those he interviewed. At Canton's Sun Yat-sen University, he talked with Professor Fu Chih-lung, a Minnesota Ph.D. in biology, who had given up theoretical research to develop a new breed of insects that would kill agricultural pests. "It's like the Nixon Doctrine," his guide remarked dryly. "Asians to fight Asians...
Heeding the call for social responsibility, many corporations now try to fill managerial posts with blacks or women. An even more logical solution, though, would be to employ persons who can meet the demands of both the N.A.A.C.P. and Women's Lib: black businesswomen. Is this rare breed finally emerging? The answer depends on where one looks. Black businesswomen are practically nonexistent in the executive suites of major corporations. The other side of the token is that they have begun to appear in fields as varied as advertising, stockbrokerage and banking...
National Goal. To many scientists, the answer is all too obvious: the development of a remarkable new generation of atomic power plants called breeder reactors. Named after their capacity to produce or "breed" more fuel than they consume, breeders have already been built and operated experimentally; they could, if technical flaws are overcome, help meet U.S. energy needs by the mid-1980s. But other scientists believe that breeders are a direct threat to the environment and to human life. Thus, when President Nixon recently declared that the construction of breeders was an important national goal and authorized work...