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...performance is reviewed and recorded by superiors every six months. Several hundred who show the greatest potential are listed in a confidential "black book" and methodically shifted from one job to another to test that potential. The best in the black book eventually rise to the "Greenbrier Group," a select party of executives who are invited every three years to a top-secret meeting in Greenbrier, W. Va., where they study G.M.'s past, reflect upon its present and try to chart its future...
...Country Club on Uruguay's sunny coast, the central bankers of 19 hemisphere nations gathered to discuss Latin America's economic problems and to weigh President Johnson's program to stem the dollar drain. On the Riviera at Cannes, the Common Market Monetary Committee, including a select group known as the Club of Six (see box), met to pass judgment on the British pound and Europe's growing inflation. In Basel, both the Bank for International Settlements and a subgroup called the Basel Club met behind carefully guarded doors to review Europe's most pressing...
...Final step, some time in the early 1970s, will be to land an ABL (Automated Biological Laboratory) equipped to search for and analyze anything resembling life, and to send reports back to earth by radio. The ABL must be prepared to select and analyze kinds of life unknown on earth. But there is little chance that any large hostile creatures will attack and destroy it. Martian life is probably lowly, but no one really knows...
...nominating a man for tenure, the Department once again takes the initiative. It can either select a man from within its own lower ranks or go outside the University. In fact, 15 of the Department's 24 tenured members were promoted from within, and many of those imported from outside had either studied or taught at Harvard...
...private schools, in any way a local district sees fit. The first-year authorization of $100 million is certain to set off a keen competition for approval of local projects. Under this section of the bill, local districts will deal directly with Washington: Commissioner Keppel's office will select the projects it considers most worthy. Of the available funds, $200,000 must be set aside for each state, and the rest, roughly $90 million, will be split among the states in two ways: half on the basis of their school-age population, half on the basis of their total...