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...some automotive experts, the most exciting exhibit at London's recent fall motor show was found not among the gleaming new Jaguars and Rolls-Royces on the floor of the main exhibition hall, but inside a back room where admission was by invitation only. There, away from the car-hungry crowds, a young American automotive whiz and part-time motorcycle racer named Bob Karol displayed small models of a bold new engine design that may some day challenge the much-bally-hooed Wankel...
...were the very best minds that America could produce. There was McGeorge Bundy, Superboy, who went to Yale instead of Harvard because "the Bundys had decided that after both Boston and Groton. Yale might be somewhat broadening." There was Robert McNamara, Whiz Kid, razormind under clicked down hair the Motor City intellectual who had a just for numbers and a remarkable ability to convince other people of things he did not believe himself There was Dean Rush the Georgia boy who became a Rhodes scholar an anticommunist fundamentalist a skipper who saved loyal even after the shop had sunk...
...Washington's top law firms obtain such power and influence? Most develop a small class of Superlawyers, mostly Ivy educated, whose professions range between tax legislation, regulatory standards, international treaties, and Ford Motor Corporation litigations. They become, Goulden writes, "the interface that holds together the economic partnership of business and government...
...glance down the columns discloses that the P/E ratios of shares on the New York Stock Exchange reach from a lowly 2 for Horizon Corp., a land developer, to an astronomical 725 for White Motor Corp., the heavy-duty-truck manufacturer. How can an investor make sense out of these seemingly incongruous figures? One key is to realize that a P/E ratio reflects, even more than current earnings, the market's anticipation of future profits...
...iconography to its extensive treatment of the spiritual. Implying such spirituality without specific religious symbols are such pictures as Ruth Breil's ecstatic photo of Yestushenko at a microphone or Minor White's own "Snowy Road" where car tracks in the snow evoke the presence of more than a motor vehicle. Where he has tried to group these works in categories of prayer, or use those symbols easily associated with the spiritual, he has restricted the creativity of the viewer's role. Yet as individual works, these photos provoke intense interaction with the viewer; one can find his own octave...