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Rarely does any student, even if he craves to be among Phi Beta Kappa's Junior Eight, fail to join one or more undergraduate organizations during his four years here. Most of Harvard's 93 organizations serve simply for the amusement of members and are not competitive or demanding. But...
For business careers, singlehood has its liabilities. As Vance Packard reports in The Pyramid Climbers: "In general the bachelor is viewed with circumspection, especially if he is not well known to the people appraising him." If he is still in his 20s, the personnel manager worries whether he is too...
The Russians still invest large amounts in heavy industry, devote an estimated 20% of their gross output to a huge military establishment (v. 10% for the U.S., which has, however, a gross output twice as large). But at the same time, the long-neglected Russian consumer is coming in for...
Energetic Ben Heineman is not turning over the whole railroad to his protege. The new president is expected to devote much of his time to organizing North Western Industries, a holding company that will place the C. & N.W.'s diversified industrial operations under the same roof with the railroad...
In its 104 years of existence, J. Walter Thompson Co., the world's largest advertising agency, has had exactly three chief executives-J. Walter Thompson, Stanley Resor and Norman H. Strouse. Last week Thompson's board of directors elected a fourth. Strouse, who has held the job for...