Word: successful
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...course, a business degree does not guarantee success or equality. Carol McLaughlin, a graduate student at Wharton, has surveyed Wharton graduates from 1945 to 1974. Among her findings: after being out of Wharton for 7½ years, men were earning an average salary of $23,000 a year v. $17,000 for women. On the average, the men had a staff of 30 people reporting to them; women averaged two or three. Observes McLaughlin: "The staff size is really startling. It shows that women are kind of doing things, but they are not really managing." From the comments on her questionnaires...
...television. I would never do that in public. I could never allow myself. You know what people would say?'emotional woman.' " Margaret Hance, the first woman mayor of Phoenix, is optimistic. "Obviously," she says, "the males of the country have overcome their fear of women in politics. Every success creates an aura of confidence for the next woman who tries it." (Women are also mayors of San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Wichita, Kans., Cincinnati and Lincoln, Neb.) Not long ago, a Gallup poll found that 73% of the American people would support a qualified woman running for President...
...were hounded by Democratic-led congressional committees trying to expose covert U.S. intelligence operations. Day after day, Frank Church's Senate committee forced Colby to divulge information about past operations, in a spectacle that was intensely damaging to the U.S. position in the world. But Kissinger scored a notable success in September when his much derided shuttle diplomacy, after months of patient effort, culminated in a historic agreement between Egypt and Israel. The President still seemed to give his policies solid support and, despite congressional hostility, Kissinger was admired and welcomed during his several forays into the American heartland...
...LIFE IN ENGLAND. [Olivier's wife, Actress Joan Plowright, is associated with a group called Lyric Theater. In a smash hit, The Bed Before Yesterday, she plays a middle-aged lady who discovers sex and loves it. My Joanie has just had such a marvelous success-I am so happy for her. Apart from acting, I love gardening, designing a garden, planting it, working in the earth. I find it sanity-provoking. I think I would have liked to have been a farmer. Earth and greasepaint are a very good...
HUMBOLDT'S GIFT by Saul Bellow. An obscure old poet dies and his onetime protege suffers in this seriocomic meditation by a major American writer on the value of art and the price of success...