Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...struggling inside a strange sort of straitjacket. In an effort to streamline the administration of various commonwealth agencies, the legislature placed them all-including the university-under the thumb of the Division of Personnel and Standardization. The division classifies jobs, sets salaries, abolishes or creates positions as it sees fit. It applies the same procedures to the university as it does to mental hospitals, prisons and road-building projects. The result is that Massachusetts cannot begin to compete with other campuses for top teachers. "What can I get?" asks President Mather. "Intellectual zombies...
...major American periodicals, an average of 237 articles for each of the two years. In the last twelve months, he managed to break into magazine print only 33 times, with most of the articles appearing early in 1955 just after the Senate censure. Only one major publication saw fit to write on him at all in the last three months of the year--and that was the evervindictive Nation, whose correspondent pursued the Senator on a speaking tour to Boston to write a piece entitled "Comeback Flop." The news index of the New York Times tells the same story...
...which Fairbanks, Morse controls. Since Fairbanks, Morse book value is $45.90 v. $12.84 for Canadian Locomotive, Morse said that "the exchange will be improvident." President Robert H. Morse Jr. was "stunned and shocked" at Uncle Charles's decision. Said nephew Robert: "I regret that my uncle has seen fit to sell his stock to a well-known financial adventurer. However, the other 9 directors deemed it in the best interests of stockholders to make the exchange. Canadian Locomotive earnings in 1955 were more than double those of Fairbanks, Morse on a per-share basis...
...cold that the bugs feel cozier in the woodwork. At this point of the story, Novelist Orwell has more than driven home his point: "To abjure money is to abjure life." Man's first duty is to get himself "bound up in the bundle of life," to fit himself for the struggles of "being married, begetting, working, dying." And so, at the eleventh hour, Orwell yanks Gordon out of his sanctimonious gutter, marries him to Rosemary, and gives him a good job writing ad copy. "[The firm] had decided that B.O. and halitosis were worked...
...Lobbyist Donald Montgomery: "Some businessmen are still stupid enough to want a crook for a lobbyist, a guy who can make the quick fix. But those characters are out of date." In to replace him has come a well-trained, accommodating technical expert whose facts-tailored, of course, to fit his own cause-are presented not in a backroom, but at a formal hearing. One of the lobbyist's biggest jobs is to gauge political winds and determine what he can get. Said one lobbyist: "I spend as much time educating my own people on what they...