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Surrealistic Sailor. Cousteau and his wife Simone, a pert, green-eyed blonde with a lineage of French admirals, have a sprawling mansion in Monaco, a Paris apartment, a hideaway on the Riviera. "I have no home. My clothes are spread all over the world." says Cousteau cheerfully. Nearest thing to home is the bare cabin of the Calypso, where they may spend months at a time. Simone has become an expert Aqua-Lunger, tags along when Cousteau goes diving with their two sons, Jean-Michel, 21, and Philippe, 19. Cousteau declares that neither of them has ever gone swimming without...
...kind of tribute from one who greatly admired Poet Millay's work without knowing the author, A Lovely Light, helpfully directed by Actress Stickney's playwright husband Howard Lindsay, is also a pleasant theater piece. Mingling pert comment and factual color from the letters with the lyrical stresses, responses and longings of the poems, Actress Stickney nicely balances the mockingbird and the nightingale, the humorous down-to-earth snorts and the impassioned cries of a woman responding to nature, or in love, or not in love...
...Washington this week as guests of the Navy will fly a planeload of businessmen and scientists to inspect a new system being used by the Navy to speed production of new weapons. The system, called Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) was set up to schedule and keep under continuous review the progress of the Polaris missile program, an administrative task rivaling the Manhattan Project in complexity. Thanks largely to PERT, the Polaris missile is programed to be operational in late 1960, two years ahead of schedule...
...PERT is the baby of the world's largest (1958 billings: $11 million), most prestigious management consultant firm, Chicago's Booz, Allen & Hamilton. When the Navy realized that the thousands of steps involved in development of the Polaris called for an overall plan to spot trouble before it happened, it called...
...Questions. Behind the experts that devised PERT lies 45 years of Booz, Allen & Hamilton experience in counseling more than 2,000 U.S. firms in management problems-getting the right outside man to become president of a slipping company, improving the flow of executive information, revising an outdated product line, amicably easing out executive deadwood. The firm was founded by the late Edwin Booz, a Reading (Pa.) ironmonger's son who studied economics and applied psychology at Northwestern University while serving as an Evanston night cop. At the time, efficiency experts were entranced with time-motion studies...