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...CARL A. KERR...
...after all, are businessmen-and they are much more likely to join in good times than bad. But though most service enterprises are now advancing strongly, the country-club business is still in something of a hole. A survey of 75 clubs by the Manhattan accounting firm of Harris, Kerr, Forster & Co. shows that membership, which had been on the rise for 17 straight years, went down about 1% in 1971. Faced with this slippage, some clubs have relaxed their restrictions and pushed aggressive membership drives. A few have even tossed in their name-embossed towels and closed...
Still, many other clubs are caught in a squeeze between soaring costs and the amount of dues that members are willing to pay. According to the Harris, Kerr, Forster study, the bill for maintaining a golf course last year jumped 9%, to $5,364 for each hole, and has nearly doubled in the past 15 years. Paradoxically, rising land values have brought disastrous increases in taxes on many clubs-particularly in states that levy especially large taxes on land that is not being put to the best use recommended in local zoning plans. Property taxes on the Purchase Country Club...
...morality. Perhaps to abandon our allies in Asia without regard for their future is not the moral course but the expedient one. Doubtless thousands of students disagree with this analysis, but to refuse it they must apply more argument to the problem rather than pious phrases to placards. Clark Kerr put it well: "what's so smart about carrying a sign...
...week and sees scores of visitors every day, groaning all the while that the Japanese "must learn the art of coming to the point as fast as possible." Other Premiers have been stiff and unapproachable; Tanaka rattles on to all comers about his favorite movie stars (Gary Cooper, Deborah Kerr), his golf game (he has an 18 handicap), or his impatient manner ("I think like an American"). When a newsman asked the Premier what he had prayed for at a shrine near Nagoya that he and several of his Cabinet Ministers had visited one stifling day after his election, Tanaka...