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...rewards can be spectacular. Diana Temple, 35, who got her M.B.A. at Chicago in 1970, went to work at a small investment research firm for $13,000, but she saw opportunities. Says she: "Security analysis is a very entrepreneurial business calling for initiative and creativity. The M.B.A. provides an overview framework, but we have to keep up with new techniques in investment decision making." Temple has kept up. She moved to Salomon Bros, last February for a salary and bonuses well into six figures...
...outlined his personal philosophy. His The American Condition, a book he calls "particularly difficult to read," is a summary of politics, his magnum opus. First and foremost, he says, it is a work of social theory. No one is writing social theory anymore, he laments; no one has an overview, they're all bogged down in their narrow fields...
Goodwin's "overview" is not a bright one. There is none of the fresh radiance, none of the confident expectation he felt during the Kennedy administration. Everywhere he sees the systems on which American has depended failing. Everywhere he sees a refusal to recognize the failure, a refusal to replace dying ideologies with new ones...
JAMES HARNEY, an editor of Overview Latin America, says the El Salvadorean government "tries to cover up these embarrassing incidents as best it can." Regarding the March 27 massacre, Anne Nelson states that American church people doing relief work in El Salvador verify that "something" happened that day. However, she won't reveal their names and organization in order to protect them. Sister Jeanne Gallo also suspects something may have happened on the 27th. "The numbers may be exaggerated, but then again, you are dealing with illiterate peasants who often can't count," she says...
...stream of visitors who made Reagan's schedule seem chockablock with appointments. Said Hospital Spokesman Dr. Dennis O'Leary: "He likes visitors more than his doctors do." Baker, Deaver and Meese arrived together at 7:15 every morning and spent 15 or 20 minutes supplying a distilled overview of the day's business. Nancy Reagan arrived in time for lunch, and remained at the hospital until 9 at night, slipping in and out between meetings and medical tests. In all, the President received about two dozen well-wishers last week, including Daughter Maureen. Reagan will miss...