Word: ince
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ESSAY probes a paradox of U.S. affluence-it seems almost necessary to be a millionaire to afford servants these days, but some people are trying todo something about it. See Help Wanted: Maybe Mary Poppins, Inc. Servants of the churches are not free of financial concerns either, and gone are the days of "the clergyman's rate." Men of the cloth now pay the full price. See RELIGION, The Disappearing Discount. And in the entertainment world, a blue-eyed crooner, son of a bartender, can make as much as $30,000 a week on the cabaret circuit. See SHOW...
...judges completed their review in due course, and last week in Atlantic City, Steven C. Swett, manager of the Time Inc. Education Department, presented the awards. The winners: Cooper Union (in New York City) for the most improved alumni magazine and Lakeland College (in Sheboygan, Wis.) for the most impressive mail campaign...
This pattern may spread, may well be the shape of domestic service in an industrial democracy. And so, alas, exeunt Jeeves, Passepartout and Pseudolus, to become IBM cards in the files of an impersonal Mary Poppins, Inc. No "existentialist bond" perhaps, no love lost, no mutual dependence. But at least-and at best-a new, professional sense of service and a more civilized life...
...still easier to make a million in the U.S. than anywhere else. Reasons: a rapidly changing American technology, the shift to a service economy, and the insatiable appetite for new and better ways of doing things. Says Arthur Decio, 34, president of Indiana's Skyline Homes Inc., who rode the mobile-home boom to a personal fortune of more than $5,000,000: "It's easier to get ahead than it was 15 or 40 years ago. Look at the population growth and the tremendous rise in personal income. It's easier to borrow money than...
...printing press, built up a circulation in 60 countries for his International Construction Reporter (cost: $50 per year). Merlyn Mickelson decided that the computer companies would need a lot of handmade magnetic memory cores, started turning them out in his basement workshop; that eventually grew into Fabri-Tek Inc., in which his stockholdings are now worth $46 million. Al Maisin sensed the hidden values in old neighborhoods, started remodeling dilapidated houses in his spare time, has become a prosperous builder...