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Special Forces Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler made a quarter-of-a-million dollars within three months by writing that paean, The Ballad of the Green Berets, one of the big song hits of the gung-ho days of 1966. Sadler himself stayed on with the Green Berets for 18 months, then took a discharge and set out to scale the heights of folk music. He never quite made it. "I went broke three times," Sadler laments. "I just didn't have the knack of keeping money." Today he is vice president of an auto-battery firm...
Some executives are worried that the present sluggishness in campus hiring may mean trouble for their companies in the future. "We will find out ten years from now that there is no one to fill the managerial ranks," predicts Monroe Sadler, Du Font's development chief. Dennis Ryan, placement director of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, adds: "The recruitment people know that this will create an air bubble in the pipeline five or ten years from now. But the personnel manager cannot get that message upstairs...
...your story discussing the cyclical machine-tool business [Nov. 1], you included the following: "Carl L. Sadler, president of Cincinnati's Sundstrand Corp...
...CARL L. SADLER...
That would be a healthy rise for most industries, but it is hardly enough to make up for the worst depression in the tool trade since the 1930s. "It's always feast or famine in this business," says Carl L. Sadler, president of Cincinnati's Sundstrand Corp. Orders for machine tools plunged from a high of $1.7 billion two years ago to some $900 million last year, and they will dip to about $750 million in 1971. Because the industry makes the machines that make other machines, it is carefully watched as a sensitive indicator...