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...Senator from Arizona rose, and the chamber hushed to hear him. He was tall and greying, with an eagle's nose and a noble brow. He wore striped pants, a wing collar, a spade-tailed coat, and nose glasses leashed with yards of black, fluttering ribbon. He rolled out his words with infinite relish. "My faults," he cried, "are obvious. There can be no doubt I have my full share. I suffer from cacoëthes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking, from vanity and morbidity, and, as is obvious to everyone who knows me, an inborn...
...social background and schooling largely determine whether he can hope to reach the top in business. In France, an executive who aspires to head a major corporation must not only be a man of broad general culture but should also hold an engineering degree from Paris' blue-ribbon Ecole Polytechnique. (Of 15 top French corporation chiefs interviewed by Granick, eight were Polytechnique graduates.) Ideally, a French executive should "parachute" into business only after several years in the higher ranks of the civil service-partly because this ensures that he will have close contacts among the government officials...
State Fair. This remake of a remake of a remake may not win any Oscars, but durned if it don't take the blue ribbon for country corn...
State Fair. This remake of a remake of a remake may not win any Oscars, but durned if it don't take the blue ribbon for country corn...
...space, the giant automaker's AC Spark Plug division won a $16 million contract to build the guidance system for the Apollo moonship. And good as all this was, General Motors' precise, silver-haired Chairman Frederic Garrett Donner, 59, was expecting even better. To a blue-ribbon business audience at New York's Waldorf-Astoria, he calmly predicted that in the next two years "an expanding economy will bring sales to an even higher level...