Word: hering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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I go to see the head of a California conglomerate. I expect a Western version of controlled optimism, with touches of anxiety around the edges. Company men out here are always mentioning "the rising tide of Pacific business," the giant market in Asia barely tapped?"1 out of 18 jobs...
"Out here, the business executives think they're younger. They feel that all New York businesses are part of one big Establishment. And in a way, they are. In New York all different kinds of industries?Wall Street, Madison Avenue, all of it?are interlocking. They all depend on the...
I watch him saunter around, loose-limbed and relaxed, and I believe the sales talk. "You know, a lot of board chairmen are here not because of the job, but because they want to live in California. Some top executives live here but commute to New York for five days...
"Our unemployment is three times that of the whites in Los Angeles. Our economic situation is so bad that less than half of us are able to finish high school. That means we can't even break the language barrier with the whites, so we can't even begin to...
A lady I will call Joan Adkins lives in Mission Hills. On her color television set is a bowl of water with a statuette of Jesus submerged in it. She turns out to be the extreme in the antismog movement. "The smog here is very bad," she tells me. "I...