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...Bunting's proposal would make the new social rules workable in fact and should be supported. But hopefully it is an omen of even better things to come...
...Advocate is not always a constant joy to read from cover to cover," he apologizes, "it is because writers and editors learn from mistakes." This issue should provide more than a modicum of instruction for writers and editors; but one can hope that the smaller size is an omen of rising standards...
...market also has more parochial but equally important reasons for feeling confident about a continuance of one of its fastest rises in history (100 points in the last 61 trading sessions). Leading those reasons are the encouraging earnings reports coming from U.S. executive suites. Another omen is the flock of new stock issues beginning to appear in appreciable numbers for the first time since Blue Monday-a sure sign, says E. F. Hutton Partner Robert Stovall, "that businessmen think the climate of the market is going to be good...
John Langum, a Chicago economic consultant, sees "a real possibility that if we get a tax cut next year, and if it is not accompanied by a restrictive monetary policy, we shall start moving up." Another thumbs-up omen was reported last week by philanthropic fund-raising organizations; far from pinching pennies, the U.S. public is expected to shell out an alltime record sum of $8.7 billion to charitable causes in 1962. Perhaps the most hopeful pointer was Detroit's output of 472,000 cars last month, a September level unsurpassed since...
...Bunkraking Author Martin Gross. A freelance writer turned test-tester, Gross argues convincingly that the personality sieves are 1) unscientific. 2) immoral, and 3) harmful to individual and corporation. Worst of all, he says, the tests do not work. The hugely profitable testing industry sells two kinds of omen analyzers. The first sort consists of printed questions that can be answered with check marks and graded by anyone who has a key. Such tests cost relatively little-as low as $7 an employee-because they do not require the tester to meet the testee or to spend much time...