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...their Chamber of Commerce talk about long-range planning, many U.S. businessmen have shown a deep-seated distrust of planning, particularly by the Government. They have often been surprised and overwhelmed by the extent of growth and demand. In some cases they did not spend enough for expansion because the slow growth of the late 1950s and early 1960s misled them into believing that American consumers were becoming sated. But in many instances, managers simply skimped on spending to dress up their balance sheets. Says Mason Haire, professor of management at M.I.T.: "Too many companies still reward executives for short...
Pleased with the success of the first two trips, Forbes took the two choral groups on another world tour in 1967. A combined performance with the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra at the Edinburgh Music Festival highlighted the tour...
...Rochester, N.Y., met privately and tentatively agreed to carry out a plan for total integration of the city's 46,000 students, 33% of whom are black. The scheme, which included the busing of 16,700 students, was backed by more than 60 local civic groups, including the Chamber of Commerce and Junior League. It was hailed by New York Education Commissioner Ewald Nyquist as "a beacon for the rest of the country." Three days later, amid rising national agitation over integration, the board met publicly and killed the project by a 3-to-2 vote...
...most Swedes, that sort of lure is irresistible-though it does present problems for the locals. The chamber of commerce plaintively requested Swedish tour directors to curb nudism on beaches near public thoroughfares: "It distracts drivers, cyclists and pedestrians. This is dangerous...
Amply basted, you are sent to bake in the Herbal Wrap Room, a darkened chamber with a flickering brick fireplace. As you climb onto a bed, you are rolled like a tortilla into sheets soaked in a steaming brew of "21 exotic Oriental herbs." When done to a spicy turn, you plop into a hydrother-apeutic bath frothing with sesquicar-bonates, lithium chloride, magnesium sulfate, hexachlorophene-everything, presumably, but cyclamates. BELLY BUDGETING. More appetizing recipes are offered in the spa's dietetic dining room. There guests bend over their menus like accountants, busily subtracting a prune whip (40 calories...