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...student of international relations, I was greatly impressed with your article on French diplomacy [Feb. 7]. There is no doubt in my mind that the brilliance of French diplomats has enabled that country to climb not only to a position of effective opposition to Communists, foreign and domestic, but also to increased independence from American power...
...greatest thing the world has ever seen," rhapsodizes Olympics Weight-Lifting Coach Bob Hoffman. "I am absolutely awestruck at the miracles it has wrought." A millionaire manufacturer of gym equipment, Hoffman claims that he was the first to make isometric exercising devices. He has seen about 50 competing firms climb on the bandwagon just within the past four years...
...week; after-tax income of individuals exceeded $400 billion in 1963; corporate profits before taxes passed $50 billion last year. CEA Chairman Walter Heller's analysis claimed that by spring this advance will be "the second-longest peacetime expansion of this century-exceeded only by the prolonged climb out of the depths of the Great Depression." This "remarkable performance," he said, "clearly shows the vitality of the private economy in an environment of progressive federal policy...
Darkness at 2. Once he gets in, the graduate is often assigned to several different departments over a period of two years or so before settling into a specialty. Statistically, a new associate has about one chance in seven of eventually reaching a partnership. The climb takes about ten years in New York, but in California an able newcomer can hope to become a partner in five years, or even less...
...hefty amount of evening and weekend work. "There is somebody here every night of the year except Christmas," says a Shearman & Sterling partner. Once he gets to be a partner, a factory lawyer finds that he works just as hard at the top as he did on the climb. Wall Street lawyers still like to recall an anecdote about the late Hoyt A. Moore, a partner in Cravath, Swaine & Moore. A colleague once told Moore that the firm ought to hire more associates because the staff was overworked. "That's silly," Partner Moore replied. "No one is under pressure...