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...Excess of Sympathy. Born Emile Herzog, son of an Alsatian Jewish industrialist, Maurois fled the family textile works and served as a liaison officer to the British army during World War I before taking up his writing career. Despite his gifts of dialogue and invention, his fiction existed within the bounds of bourgeois convention. "I wrote about a rather limited world," he admitted. When he tried to do otherwise, he produced clichés. The interplanetary observers of The Life of Man saw human beings behaving like ants. In The Departure, the dead queue up to board airplanes. Typically, Maurois...
Meanwhile, the temper of another minority group in the South End and neighboring Roxbury--the Negroes--had infected the Puerto Ricans and the agencies that worked with them. Iglesias raised the cries of "Puerto Rican Power!" and "Self-government." While this might have seemed an excess of bravado for a man trying to mobilize 6,000 people, the agencies began to react...
...year 1966-67, Stacey reckons that his company has successfully concluded $50 million worth of corporate mergers. Clients give Chesham 4% for the first $1,000,000 paid for the acquired company, with a minimum of 1 % for all amounts in excess of $3,000,000. The outlook for the merger brokers is bright, for as Strathclyde University Professor K. J. Alexander puts it: "The curse of bigness has now been replaced by the cult of bigness." Consolidating the big, unwieldy corporations is only a start. England is still a country of almost cottage-size businesses whose copycat ways...
...glass of water three times a day before meals. Almost half of the 65 have been bothered at first by constipation, though only two have quit the test because of that. All patients have shown marked reductions not only in blood cholesterol but in other circulating fats that, in excess, may be still more damaging...
Management has hardened because of rising costs and declining profits, and is inclined to suffer strikes, especially those that help to clear away excess inventories. Union attitudes have stiffened both because the labor market is tight and because of increased militancy on the part of the rank and file. Most union members are in a better position this year to sit out a strike. A Detroit striker who is drawing benefits from the United Auto Workers and has some money in his bank account was inclined to welcome the chance to watch the World Series on television and to take...