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Imperishable. Despite that record, Chicago's Mayor Daley plows indefatigably on, seeking still further improvement. He works an 18-hour day, carries pencil and paper on which he jots streams of ideas in shorthand, commands instantaneous action from his political underlings. "He keeps prodding you all the time," says one. He has thousands of friends, but few close ones. "He's like a post office clerk sorting mail," says one associate. "He keeps men in slots. In a general human sense of trusting somebody, the only person really close to him is his wife." Daley's entire...
...today. The profit squeeze, the need to keep a company's money flowing, the ever more entangling intricacies of corporate financing-all have made the treasurer a powerful executive who is involved in everything from capital spending to cost cutting. The new corporate treasurer is a tough, sharp-pencil man, and his skills and duties have grown so wide that he often boasts the title of financial vice president and ranks just below the president in authority. So important have the financial men become that more and more of them find their way to the top corporate jobs-General...
...Fuss. Last week Kodak paid public reverence to all three. In Manhattan, President William Scott Vaughn, 60, a mathematician and onetime Rhodes scholar, announced that "George Eastman's idea was to 'make a camera as easy to use as the pencil'-and picture taking now becomes that easy." What makes it so, in Vaughn's view, is the latest developments from Kodak's researchers: new Kodak still-film cartridges that pop in and out like blades in a razor, and four new models of "Instamatic" cameras (prices: $16 to $110) that use the film...
...many areas of India they were the first Europeans to arrive, and they made rapid pencil sketches of whatever caught their eyes, laying on a monochrome wash with color notations. These were later worked into finished watercolors. oils, or engravings. At first, Thomas, who was then in his late 30s and had trained at the Royal Academy, did most of the drawing, leaving the mechanical tasks to William; but William rapidly developed into a competent artist, and before the safari was over was signing many pictures himself. Much impressed by the gateway leading to Akbar's Tomb at Sikandra...
Bohr's atomic model answered dozens of questions that had the physicists of the time chewing their pencil stubs. It won him a Nobel Prize, but it, too, had faults which were gradually corrected by mathematical abstractions that seemed to grow more and more bizarre. Bohr himself did much of the correcting, and even the most recent concepts of atomic structure reflect his genius for inventive analysis...