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Next question: "Would you select the particular field of medicine in which you are now practicing?" Psychiatrists answered with an 85% yes; internists, 82%; surgeons, 81%; obstetricians, 78%; G.P.s, 66%; and pediatricians...
...older employee or cutting him off with a watch, business is pouring $4 billion a year into retirement programs. With the aid of University of Chicago consultants, Bell & Howell has even drawn up a threeyear, preretirement indoctrination program for older employees to help them invest their money wisely, select an area in which to settle down, cultivate hobbies, and new skills for part-time jobs. One of the primary goals of the modern businessman, says G.E. President Cordiner, is to "encourage his employees to live in the world, not just the company...
...copies an hour. Its traffic men plotted split-second schedules of distribution by truck, rail, all available regular airline service, and ten chartered planes. Across the U.S. our own circulation men, including TIME Circulation Director Bernhard M. Auer and Newsstand Managers Mark Slater and W. Stuart Powers, and 100 Select Magazines, Inc. distributors stood by to speed deliveries...
...this subject, the report concludes, "the extent of the freedom that students have to assemble, to select speakers, to discuss controversial topics, even to harry the administration by criticism whether sagacious or puerile, is more likely to be a measure of the maturity of the educational institution and the community that it serves, than a determination of the maturity or immaturity of the student body...
...Atlantic City, before 22,000 rapt spectators, an annual rite was performed. After a select group of American beauties had paraded their assets for all to assay, South Carolina's blonde, blue-eyed Marian Ann McKnight, 19 (assets: 35-23-35; dividend: a singing imitation of Marilyn Monroe), was handed a queenly scepter and crowned Miss America of 1957. After sobbing a moment, but not at the thought that her title will net her close to $75,000, the queen threw her head back and said: "Who would have thought this could happen...