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...Vance Packard--Women's City Club, cocktails at 5:30, speech...
...maintains, is only a psychological profile, not a definitive tome on American business practices. And to an extent, he is right: as a psychologist, he deals in the abstract, approaching society with a precise scientific manner that far outclasses the pat ramblings of pop sociologists such as Vance Packard and Alvin Toffler. His findings are interesting, and certainly valuable for their portrayal of the different types of drives that keep the engine of the American economy running. Indeed, in one chapter, Maccoby strikes home with a telling analysis of "the head and the heart" of the successful corporate figure, painting...
...Kahn, a Brooklyn-born sage weaned on decades of Dodger glory, spent the better part of his youth trying, in his own words, "to equate the game in terms of Americana." The result was a fat passel of pseudo-sociological articles that would have warmed the heart of Vance Packard. Only they didn't work. Slowly, Kahn admits, he realized that baseball was one interesting part of American life, but hardly a mystic expression of its inner meaning. Like all fun and games, baseball is best suited to anecdotes, not weighty moralizing, to light yarns rather than weighty parables...
...stay as late as 5:30. Under some Flextime plans, workers choose a starting and a quitting time and have to stick to it. Under others they can, with their bosses' permission, come in at different times each day. Says Katy Westlund, a switchboard operator for Hewlett-Packard, which has adopted Flextime for employees at all 19 of its U.S. manufacturing plants: "You just tell your supervisor the day before when you're coming in in the morning." Nor do Flextime employees always have to work the same number of hours each day. At Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance in Milwaukee...
William R. Hewlett, president of the Hewlett-Packard Company and founder of the newly-formed Hewlett foundation, consulted with Bok and Price before making the donation...