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...Department of Labor estimates that in the U.S. there are 4,120,000 managers and professionals in industry-just about 7% of the total working force. The Erdos & Morgan study finds that one-fourth of these are in top management, the rest, in operating and technical management. Three-fourths of them are under 45, and almost half earn $10,000 or more. Most (72%) are college educated. More than half live in the nation's 50 largest metropolitan areas, and slightly more than half work for companies employing 1,000 or more. They are a valuable group to keep...
...Gaulle's Ministry of Finance disclosed that nearly $2 billion has fled Algeria for France within the past two years. Human beings were also in flight: the daily average of European refugees has soared from 3,000 to 8,000. This month alone, an estimated one-fourth of the million Europeans in Algeria will leave for France. They are being replaced by a slow influx of Moslem refugees returning from years of exile in neighboring Tunisia and Morocco with only a few sheep and goats and the ragged clothes on their backs. Most will come home to partially...
Where's the Standout? Washington feels uneasy because business is expand ing only about one-fourth as fast as it did at the beginning of the recovery. Two-thirds of the current recovery was made in the four months from March through June of 1961 v. only one-third in the eight months from July through February...
...took orders from no one else, even feuded with Nehru's powerful sister, Mme. Pandit, onetime Indian Ambassador to Russia, the U.S., and the U.N. On a visit to London, she was told by High Commissioner Menon: "You will not give interviews to the press unless I or one of my staff is present. I am ambassador here, not you." Mme. Pandit protested to her brother about Menon's arrogance, but to no avail. "Krishna can be both charming and irritating," she says. "But it's about three-fourths of one and one-fourth the other...
U.C.L.A. is the showpiece and home base of the biggest adult higher education program in the U.S. It is run by the seven-campus University of California, which last year enrolled 150,000 extension students, more than one-fourth of all extension students on U.S. public campuses. The part-timers' course hours were the equivalent of those of a fulltime campus with 12,000 students. The entire operation costs $8,000,000. of which the state pays only 9%. Tuition and ticket sales cover the rest...