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In their twilight years, some very rich men are content to devote their energies to such sedentary tasks as clipping coupons and collecting Chinese snuff bottles. Not Daniel K. Ludwig. At 79, he is a veteran of seven decades of business; he started at the age of nine by scraping...
Six seems determined to show the pilots that "they underestimated us." It will be a walkout without much public sympathy; even in the eyes of some less well-paid Continental employees, the pilots already seem well off. Many pilots own outside businesses (ski resorts, cattle ranches, law practices) and, says...
"My preference," L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, said yesterday, "is that of the new director--probably to devote somewhat less to summer jobs and more to term-time jobs."
Fallows hardly speaks of speechwriting with great enthusiasm. "If you've written speeches," he says, "then you understand both what a different form they are from real writing and how you get used to venting all your own prejudices under your name. It feels a little frustrating to tone them...
Maybe there's some sort of market for this star-studded blather. But for heaven's sake let Woman's Wear Daily mine it. They do a much better job covering the celebs than More can do anyway. What More should devote itself to is something along the lines of...