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...Jersey Standard admit that some executives frequently feel a sense of frustration in the big corporation. The chief lure of small companies is greater responsibility in a hurry. Says Boston's Norman Krim. who swapped a Raytheon vice-presidency for the presidency of a discount house called Radio Shack: "You can move fast in a small outfit, but in a big company you have to wait for six or eight people up ahead of you." Promotions are swifter in small companies because competition is weaker; ideas also move to the top faster because fewer committees stand...
...mother nor her older brothers and sisters. The love affair was stormy, filled with arguments and fights, and twice Esperanza went home to mother, each time swollen with child. Now, four years later, Esperanza and her two children live with her mother in a wood-and-cardboard shack, and she accepts her deserted, unwed state as quite natural. "She just had bad luck," says her mother. "It could happen to anyone...
...winter vacationers tend to linger on forever, end up plunking down an average $70,000 for a plot of land and another $50,000 for a chalet to build on it. To some, a year-round retreat there is worth even more: Actress Elizabeth Taylor picked up a little shack in the valley last summer for a cool...
...uptown to study interpretive dancing with José Limón. And Gittel has principles. No matter how terribly she is tempted, she never sleeps with a man on the first date. Unfortunately, Gittel also has a heart as big as Hadassah. She supports half the dead-beatniks who shack up with her, and sometimes she even pays their train fare to see other girls...
Magpie's Hut. Crick and Watson did their work in a shabby shack sandwiched between the imposing academic buildings on the flower-bordered lawns of Cambridge. In one corner of this laboratory (known locally as The Hut), they had a magpie's nest of old books and model molecules strung like mobiles from the ceiling. Debonair and carefully dressed, Crick always managed to look incongruous there; Watson, tieless, rumpled and far more casual in his dress, fitted the picture perfectly. New Zealand-born Wilkins, tall, blond and courtly in the British manner, worked with Dr. Rosalind Franklin...