Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After an unprecedented vote of censure of the HSA two years ago by the Dunster House Committee, a committee authorized by the old Student Council conducted a short investigation and submitted a brief report claiming most of the criticisms were unfounded. This superficial document failed to satisfy HSA critics, and a new wave of complaints last Spring prompted the Harvard Council on Undergraduate Affairs to commence what it promised to be a detailed and comprehensive inquiry...
...married an industrial engineer from Boston, Edwin A. Ekdahl, and moved to Fort Worth. They kept Lee with them, sent the two older boys to a Mississippi military academy. That marriage also was brief. In 1948 Ekdahl filed for divorce, charged that his wife nagged him constantly about money, hit and scratched him, threw a bottle and a cookie jar at him, once nearly crowned him with a vase...
...profit textiles and into broadly diversified manufacturing. Last week, grown to 26 divisions that produce everything from eyeglasses and iron cookware to rocket engines and rolling mills, Textron added a 27th by buying for $7,000,000 a small Vermont toolmaking firm called Jones & Lamson. Management meetings are brief at Textron because the chairman dislikes rambling conversation, sets a wristwatch alarm to make sure that he does not ramble him self. Shattering the old axiom, Textron, under Banker Thompson, last year earned $18 million on sales of $587 million, is now New England's second biggest company after United...
...offices in a large L-shaped building adjoining the Foreign Ministry. The service is competitive, as in the U.S., and most of its members are career men. A French diplomat is far less submerged in paper work than his U.S. counterpart. He is constantly urged to keep his cables brief and infrequent so that the total handle of cables at the Quai runs about 1,000 daily, less than half that of the U.S. State Department. The Quai's files are singularly bare of statistics. There are not even any biographical files on foreign dignitaries. "If we want...
...that he might have been more; he has been lucky--we are constantly reminded--lucky to have passed his exams, lucky to have been hired, lucky to have been taken into the corporate "family." The job, with its occasional minor advances, shall be his all. We are permitted brief glances into the emptiness of the outside lives of his co-workers. Caught in a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, they exist without misery, without real joy, on a treadmill of uncompromising mediocrity. Yet this restrained portrait of an Italian class is more saddening even than the depravity of La Dolce Vita...