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Blacks in jobs with more responsibility also find their way to the top blocked by what they consider lingering prejudice. In 1970 Milton Johnson was promoted to senior buyer of a $35 million line of children's sportswear at J.C. Penney Co., one of five blacks with such a job. Twelve years later, there are still five black senior buyers. Johnson, 43, who makes more than $50,000 a year, is disenchanted. He wishes he had started his own business rather than worked for a big corporation...
...Universities cannot compartmentalize costs as narrowly as the government would like," explains Milton Goldberg, head of the Council on Governmental Relations, which represents 100 major research universities--including Harvard--in their dealings with executive agencies...
Nemy's column, entitled adoringly enough "New Yorkers, etc.," does for the social world what Milton Friedman does for the economic. She makes a compelling case that the greatest injustice facing the world are those that mildly inconvenience that well-heeled. The most insiduous aspect of the column is Nemy's assumption that all her readers must share the plight of which she speaks. No matter what one's tax bracket, one finds one self wondering right along with her about how to juggle three black tie dinner affairs in the same evening, or who should pick...
...interviewed just about everyone famous in America over his long career as a radio broadcaster in Miami and on his current show. In his book, he discusses friendships with Jackie Gleason, Lenny Bruce, Don Rickles, and Nixon. He recalls interviews with the likes of Bob Hope, Bill Cosby, and Milton Friedman...
...largely conservative faculty of the University of Chicago) to be named a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. At a press conference the witty professor was asked if he were more conservative in his outlook and opinions than his good friend and former faculty colleague Monetarist Milton Friedman, who received the Nobel Prize in 1976 and is now associated with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. The 6-ft. 3-in. Stigler brushed off the question: "I don't know if I'm behind Milton or ahead of him, but he's so short...