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...their woes, few of the Lilliputians intend to sell out willingly. To them, big companies spell the organization-man way of life. "Exciting" and "challenging" are the words they use to describe their own careers, and they rightly believe that there is plenty of room for the small manufacturer with a good idea-no matter how stiff the competition. Besides, the big man in the small company usually draws a handsome salary and expense account even when his firm does no better than break even...
...specialist in modern Japanese history, although he began as an ancient historian. Previously he had explored fairly extensive areas of Far Eastern history, but had only taken a "few brief looks at modern history. At least, I'll still be in the same country," he observed. He does intend to return to teaching after his stint in Japan ends, but has made no definite plans. As I left him however, there was little doubt in my mind that be would return to pedagogy: the interview had lasted exactly 53 minutes
...inated by yacht clubs and big-boat own ers to a family hobby and national pas time. Last year, of 15,000 boats sold in the U.S., 80% were less than 20 ft. long and one-third were destined for fresh water launching. Only 10% of their new owners intend to race them. "The rest are weekend sailors who aren't out to break any speed records," says O'Day. "This is the market I decided to go after...
...integrated society. It devised the famed Higher Horizons program, heavy on culture and counseling, which now involves 64,000 students in 76 schools. At state level, New York's Commissioner of Education James E. Allen Jr. recently requested school boards to report by September on what steps they intend to take to balance schools with more than 50% Negro enrollment...
...companies, of course, intend to stick basically to refining and selling petroleum products. But since the early 1950s, the $48 billion oil industry, suffering from a profit squeeze, has gone questing for new sources of earnings. The industry got tangled in excess refining capacity built up during the Korean war. Its foreign operations have sometimes suffered from such cut-price competitors as the Russians, and intense competitiveness at home has brought on gasoline price wars in some areas. Compact cars drink less gasoline, and have helped to reduce the annual rise in gasoline sales from...