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...request of the U.S. Senate, the consulting firm Arthur D. Little, Inc. produced an ambitious plan for improving the U.S.'s performance. It proposes consolidating into one department the work of 31 federal agencies involved in tourism. A streamlining of the federal machinery might help, if it did not create more layers of bureaucracy. While the Little report dealt mainly with domestic tourism, the U.S. also needs a robust national tourist office-almost every European country has one-that could encourage travel by more aggressive advertising and information programs. At present, the U.S. Travel Service has only six branches...
Executive Pay. Responding to Carter's call, several companies volunteered to hold pay raises of high executives to 5% or less this year. General Motors and Time Inc. joined the list. So did A T & T, after its chairman, John deButts, got a wheedling phone call from Bob Strauss, who typically asks business leaders, "What can you put in the pot?" Ford, R.C.A., Westinghouse and some other companies were studying the idea. Meanwhile, the House Appropriations Committee voted to deny scheduled pay increases this year to some 16,000 federal executives earning more than...
Florence Van der Kemp, President The Versailles Foundation, Inc...
...Some other experts see no mystery; in their view employers are rushing to catch up on hiring that they might have begun two or even three years ago, but put off because they feared that the business expansion would not last. Says James Fromstein, vice president of Manpower, Inc., a temporary-help firm: "Management has taken heart with each quarter of recovery, when things did not fall apart once more. When all the doubt was around, employment decisions were postponed. Now those decisions to hire cannot be delayed...
Muriel Snowden '38, co-director of Freedom House, Inc., a community service organization in Roxbury, and a member of the Board of Overseers, delivered the keynote address for the convention. C. Clyde Ferguson, professor of Law and acting director of the Du Bois Institute, spoke about the institute's activities...