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...Jacksonville, Fla., where they are known as Mr. J. E. and Mr. A. D. Brother Austin Davis, 52, is executive vice president in Miami, and Tine Davis, 49, has the same title in Montgomery. Each has an equal say in management and draws the same "salary" (one-half percent of pre-tax profits, less $25,000, which amounted to some $163,000 for each in the year just closed). Explains J. E.: "I'm the conservative element, the long-range planner. A. D. is always the aggressive expansionist. Austin specializes in the big stores, and Tine is the personality...
...federal work force has increased 8% since 1955, what has been the percent of increase since 1955 in the U.S. population, which in effect is serviced by federal employees...
...Surfing Illustrated have appeared on the stands. Surf songs keep deejays spinning even in Chicago, which is relatively surfless. And from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border, when the word goes out that "surf's up!" whole families go streaming toward the handiest stretch of Pacific shore. "Ninety percent are beginners," broods Bill Cooper, executive secretary of the U.S. Surfing Association. "Half of them give it up in a year or two, but then there are more-and the real danger of surfing is in numbers. One surfer gets knocked off his board, gets hit by another. Most...
...have quadrupled since 1950, and slimming parlors have become almost as thick as Germany's beloved whipped cream. In Bonn, where a session at the stylish Salon der Figur ranges from $6 for a plump pubescent to $125 for a well-marbled dowager, Owner Helga Pietsch sighs: "Ninety percent of the German women who come in here don't even know what a calorie...
Administratively, the Gen Ed program has gone out of joint as a result of non-departmental programs which have impinged upon its authority and functions. The sophomore standing program now permits ten percent of each entering class to skip the freshman year and, incidentally, to dispense with a large portion of the Gen Ed requirement. The Advanced Standing program, which this year involved 40 per cent of the freshman class, weakens Gen Ed still more by giving students college credit for subjects outside their field of concentration. The Freshman Seminar program, in which more than one-fourth of this year...