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Penn Coed Lucy Conger refers to her class as "the silver-platter generation." No economic depression clouds their horizon, and most students seem to accept the inevitability of luxuries with patrician assurance. In fact, the degree of affluence is astonishingly high: at the University of Texas, for example, nearly a third of this year's seniors come from families earning $20,000 a year. Indifferent to monetary success, a surprisingly large number of graduates are planning to enter such service vocations as teaching, social work, urban planning or small businesses, where they hope to define their own destiny. Many resent...
...dream career as an Irish patriot. His initials also mean "Here Comes Everybody" (turning the sleeper into Everyman) and "Haveth Childers Everywhere" (making him Adam, father of all living). Once the reader gets the hang of this, the possibilities are endless: H.C.E. can also stand for "Human Conger Eel" and a hypothetical chemical formula, H²CE³ As a game, it beats parlor (or bedroom) psychonalysis...
...former strikers a fat Christmas gift of $3,000,000 in back wages. The company will also fork over $1.5 million in pension-fund contributions. The settlement, tied to a new one-year contract, was sealed by U.A.W. Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey and Kohler Vice President Lyman C. Conger with a handshake. Despite the most extensive boycott campaign ever mounted by organized labor, the effect of the long dispute on the company was hardly shattering; Kohler today is still a leader in the industry, ranks third nationwide in annual sales...
Died. Anson Conger Goodyear, 86, first (1929-39) president of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, a Buffalo industrialist and collector who, in 1929, at the request of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and two other Manhattan patronesses of art, began organizing a museum for contemporary painting and design, signed on Director Alfred H. Barr and a cadre of blue-chip trustees, in ten years established the museum as the world's foremost devoted to modern art; of a heart attack; in Old Westbury...
...high-risk driver's obvious faults are ill-concealed hostility lurking just below the surface, and an egocentric disregard for others' rights and feelings. Underlying these characteristics, say Drs. Miller and Conger, is dissatisfaction with his position in life and a lack of direction: he does not know where he is going, let alone how to get there. The high-risk driver is far more likely than others to act impulsively, and live in a world of fantasy...