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...male. Mathematics and the sciences are masculine preserves. Though a third of the Supreme Soviet and 25% of Communist Party members are women, none occupy positions of real power, including membership in the Politburo. Even in what are considered traditionally female professions -education, health, post office, telephone and telegraph operations, and shopkeeping-the majority of managers and decision makers are men. As Nikita Khrushchev once admitted to an agricultural conference, "It turns out that it is men who do the administrating and women who do the work...
...business proposal with sympathy and understanding. One corrective exercise asks, "Did you find rewriting the cliches easy?" At $89.95 each, the firm has sold upwards of 10,000 Power Writing kits, each of which contains workbooks, a dictionary, a thesaurus and four audio cassettes. American Telephone and Telegraph has budgeted an estimated $2 million to provide a customized version of the Power Writing course for 20 Bell System offices throughout the nation...
Arlen focuses mainly on the making of a single commercial, American Telephone & Telegraph's effort to encourage more long-distance calling or, as their infectious jingle suggests, "Reach out, reach out and touch someone." Says the vice president in charge of the "creative group" that devised the ad: "From the very beginning, AT&T wanted us to overcome the negative emotions associated with long-distance, the bad-news phone call in the middle of the night. For years, there has been a definitely negative, uncasual quality to a lot of long-distance calling. AT&T wanted us to emphasize...
...dais, he was invited to join the others in the anteroom. He declined, pleading the press of time and thinking he might be walking into a trap. When Reagan finally appeared with the other four and argued for a six-man forum, Moderator Jon Breen, editor of the Telegraph, insisted that the format would not be changed...
Reagan prepared to fire Sears just when his campaign manager pulled off his triumph at the Nashua Telegraph debate. Chipper and confident, Sears had no reason to think he was being axed when he and two lieutenants-National Political Director Charles Black and Press Secretary Jim Lake-were summoned to the boss's suite at a Holiday Inn in Manchester, N.H. There they encountered Reagan and Casey; off to one side sat Nancy Reagan, looking distressed. Reagan came right to the point. He handed Sears a press release announcing his resignation. Stifling his surprise, Sears...