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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What chills, what fears, what seductive impressions crossed the Russian's mind as at last he saw the place he had drawn so often and so critically? He cautiously refused to say, but did get out his drawing book for a sketch from life (see cut) that will presumably serve him well when he once again sits down at his drawing board in Russia...
...this era of $100,000 bonuses for hot-shot high school kids who often end up in the bushes, the $4,000 paid to Bill Mazeroski for signing his contract seems more and more the best bargain Branch Rickey ever made. "Pound for dollar," says Pittsburgh Baseball Announcer Bob Prince in the lingo of the press box, "Mazeroski is far and away the most valuable chattel in the Pirate empire...
...reason for this disparity, says Wernick, is the vast increase in so-called "nonproduction" workers, which corporations often fail to take into account. Between 1947 and 1957, nonproduction workers increased by 1,400,000, or 55%, v. only a 125,000, or 1%, increase in production-line workers. Salary payments jumped even faster (see chart...
...knows how to gauge the productivity of such workers-or how much money they should get. On the standard measures, it often appears that white-collar employees drag productivity down. If only production-line workers are counted, productivity increased at an annual rate of 3.7% since 1947; if all workers are counted, the gain drops to 2.9%. Actually, says Wernick, the reverse may be true, since technical experts often make possible productivity increases. Moreover, how can industry measure the work of scientists who design a new machine or a new product that does not show up in the output figures...
...such ills as high blood pressure and heart disease that often accompany the businessman's strenuous pace, Dr. James N. Lynch, secretary of the Chicago Dental Society, last week added "executive mouth." Plenty of dental defects, said Dr. Lynch, are caused by "the same factors that contribute to what we call success in life." Hard-driving businessmen seeking release from stress clench their teeth, jut their jaws, grind their molars-both on the job and in their sleep. In cases of irregular bite, this leads to pyorrhea, which causes the bone around the tooth to dissolve. Result: the teeth...