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Rubottom's successor will be Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Thomas C. Mann. He has served as embassy counselor in Guatemala and Ambassador to El Salvador. He is credited with drawing up the plan for U.S. participation in the international coffee agreement...
...male commuter does have one advantage: he can pursue a clandestine affair easily in the city merely by notifying his suburban wife that he is being kept at the office. One sign of the times is that Private Detective Milton Thompson of suburban Kansas City is also a marriage counselor, has handled 300 marital cases in the past three years. The usual story: "The husband plays on the Missouri side of the river before he gets out here. Maybe it's just a few extra-dry martinis with the gang from his office. Maybe not. Anyway, Mama...
...unique institution in fierce academic competition with all the others. The result is to encourage a flood of multiple applications from youngsters who cannot be sure which campus considers them suitable. Though high school guidance is improving, the pressure is rising so fast that even . the most fastidious counselor must steer youngsters to more and more colleges, hoping to get them in somewhere. In turn, colleges grow less sure of which students will accept them: many a small college begins the annual mating season with a deluge of applications, and winds up short of freshmen...
...chosen few with average academic ability had other qualifications: an offbeat talent, a semifinalist rank in the Merit Scholarship competition, a drive to become something specific in life, a glowing recommendation from high school teachers. The Ivy League makes few "fuzzy" choices, says Fritz Meier, boys' counselor at suburban (Chicago) Oak Park and River Forest High Schools. "They've been involved in selective admissions for a long, long time, and they've become rather skillful...
...aimed at helping them to help a drinking parent to reform or even find his way to AA. That is a job for the alcoholic himself. Alateens seek an understanding of the problem and a way to live with it. "When it works," explained a Fort Worth adult counselor, "they quit trying to change the things they can't change, quit trying to make their daddies stop drinking, quit fussing and feeling sorry for themselves...