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...early 1960s, at least 55 per cent entered graduate or professional schools. And if those students who entered government service as bureaucrats are included--for most of them had postgraduate training--then the proportion of black graduates going to advanced study in the pre-1960s era is nearer to 70 per cent. This is comparable, and probably superior, to the figure for white Harvard graduates in the same period. By contrast, seldom in these years did more than 5 per cent of the graduates of black colleges pursue advanced degrees...
Moves of big-company headquarters are steadily getting harder to arrange-and more expensive. Union Carbide went to Danbury partly because it could not find enough land at a reasonable price nearer New York City. The company expects to pay up to $40 million just in moving expenses for the 3,250 employees that it will transfer starting next year. Despite-or because of-its distance from New York, the company expects to find the Big Apple umbilical hard to cut. The firm will spend $2.25 million for a pair of twelve-passenger Sikorsky S-76 helicopters to ferry executives...
...Says Laurenti: "Here you get rewarded for your merits, not for what your father has done." Michael Garstin, 29, a British-born London School of Economics graduate, came to the U.S. in 1974 as a trainee with the Chase Manhattan Bank. Says he: "I wanted to be nearer the source of power." His Scottish girlfriend, Annemarie Cairns, also 29, had a good job in a London public relations firm and did not initially share Michael's enthusiasm for New York when they married two years ago. While Michael is an up-and-coming executive at the bank, Annemarie...
Analysts for the state legislature estimate that the total actual property tax cut may be nearer $6.4 billion than $7 billion?and of this, homeowners will get a collective saving of only $2.3 billion. The rest will go to owners of rented residential property ($1.2 billion) and commercial and industrial property ($2.9 billion). The state's ten largest utilities and railroads alone will benefit by $400 million next year; in addition, Standard Oil figures to benefit by $13.1 million and Lockheed by $9.5 million...
...homer. All these fantasies, based on the true glory of base ball! And why? Because a major league player has to be special; he must have a certain lyrical quickness and luck that belong more to the poetic than to the athletic part of life. Baseball is nearer to art because of the expert solitude of the player...