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Once, consultants were little more than efficiency experts with a fancier title. Today the management consultant tries to be a hired superman: a co-strategist, talent scout, policy adviser, hatchet man (to chop down executive deadwood), naysayer and new-business finder. In the postwar boom the consultant business (2,000 firms grossing more than $400 million annually) has grown faster than ever, as industrialists, facing the largest opportunities (and pitfalls) in history, have looked for experienced guides for mergers and for diversification...
Still not satisfied, the Farnborough men constructed a large model of a Comet's cabin in transparent plastic. They filled it with model seats and model passengers. They pumped it full of air at 8¼ lbs. Then they deliberately fractured the skin near the direction-finder window and took a motion picture of what happened...
...event that they had been waiting for. After the equivalent of 9,000 hours of flight, the skin of the cabin near a window yielded to metal fatigue. This gave the essential clue. The scientists found a similar break in the fragments of Yoke Peter near the direction-finder window in the roof. Then they traced, fragment by fragment, what had happened with fearful swiftness to the doomed Comet...
...Among the early employees was Britain's John Masefield, now Poet Laureate, who rose from the $1.05-a-day job of tin-opener to that of mistake-finder (he inspected rugs for flaws), and who later wrote a book about his experiences, In the Mill...
...making the same basic 35-mm. camera since 1924, has just brought out a radical new model to meet increasing competition. Called the "M," the new camera has interchangeable bayonet lenses (instead of the usual screw-mounted type), a detachable automatic light meter, and a combination viewer and range finder that adjusts automatically for all lenses. Retail price...