Word: maxon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year, severance pay, company-financed college courses, moving allowances for transferred employees, and layoff benefits that bring payments up to 80% of base wages. Even more liberal extras range from the country clubs for workers provided by Burroughs Corp. and IBM to haircuts for employees of Detroit's Maxon advertising agency and psychiatric care ($2 a visit) for California Retail Clerks and their dependents...
Einstein? The questionnaire and scoreboard, says Grosse Pointe Realtor Paul Maxon, "have been very successful, have kept property values up, and are approved by at least 95% of the people out here." The whole idea of the system is to keep out people who tend toward "cliqueishness," "Old World customs," and "clannishness," e.g., "an Italian fruit vendor." Furthermore, real estate men point out that Grosse Pointe has a number of Polish, Greek and Southern European people scattered throughout the suburbs. Says Realtor Maxon: "I am sure Albert Einstein would have been accepted here...