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...business, it is more than ever before a matter of long-term projection and growth rather than of quick profits. "It generally takes plain, simple, unappetizing patience to achieve a business goal," says Manhattan Stockbroker Armand G. Erpf. "The overnight fortune is a myth." Business leaders are notably patient. The typical top executive has been with his company for 25 years and worked up through the ranks. Salesmanship is also becoming an ever more complicated exercise in patience, supported by huge amounts of research and strategy; it is not unusual for a salesman to work years to land...
...Overnight, thousands of stickers were stuck on the walls of Manhattan's men's rooms: HAVE YOU SEEN FANNY? Po lice found a statue of a nude woman-Fanny's belly dancer-set up in the Poets' Corner in Central Park. "A wealthy Turk" (who hasn't been seen since) informed the press that he wanted to buy the belly dancer from Merrick for $2,000,000 and take her back to Istanbul. TV and radio broke out with a rash of spot commercials selling Fanny, Fanny, Fanny. Logan himself directed scenes from the play that were presented...
Despite these signs of disunity, all of the Eastern regimes are, simply, Communist. To expect them to change overnight is a daydream. But Communism itself is learning to adapt to human needs, is undergoing...
...discovered the literary lode he was to tap for the rest of his life. The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Outcasts of Poker Flat, two short stories published in the Overland Monthly magazine, gave readers so honest and vigorous a draft of frontier life that Harte became an overnight celebrity. It is fair to say, as O'Connor does, that the literature of the West began with Bret Harte...
...course, no guarantee that the colonels and generals will be better rulers than the civilians they threw out. They face horrendous economic problems, and their popularity is bound to wear off as the man in the marketplace discovers that he is not going to rise from poverty overnight. One veteran revolutionary is already predicting failure. "These African military coups will not work," said Egypt's Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser last week. "African military men have no political experience, and their economies are too poor to meet the expectations of the people. They cannot last...