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Business Collapse? Marks & Spencer's vendetta against paper work started one Saturday early in 1957, when Sir Simon came across two salesgirls carefully filling out long inventory-replacement cards while customers fumed for service. "What are these cards for?" he asked. The girls did not know. Sir Simon found that they were to keep track of merchandise in the stockroom, to curb employee pilfering and to tell the store manager when to reorder. Sir Simon ordered them abolished and let the sales clerks go freely into the stockrooms to get whatever they needed to sell. Pilfering not only...
...Noise Hater Knudsen, former chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles, is a crusader whose stamp-out-sound vendetta started 38 years ago while he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, where he earned his doctorate with a thesis on the physics of hearing. With his trusty, ever-present sound-level meter, Knudsen tours the world, makes surprising discoveries. He once measured a noise level of 90 decibels* at a U.C.L.A. faculty tea. In the surf at Santa Monica, he registered a 3-ft. breaker at 80 decibels from a distance...
...Some ten years ago, when a radio commentator asked what she would do if she woke up in the White House, she twanged right back: "I'd go straight to Mrs. Truman and apologize. Then I'd go home." She also nurses old grudges (e.g., the Smith vendetta against the promotion of Actor James Stewart to be an Air Force brigadier general), sometimes writes tart notes to erring constituents. She shuns the Washington social whirl, lives quietly in a three-apartment building in suburban Silver Spring, Md. The other apartments are occupied by Bill Lewis, her ubiquitous administrative...
...plants with Catholic shop stewards. But Kennedy worked hard for the labor vote, shaking hands at factory gates, attending shop meetings, cultivating labor's rank and file; he was doubtless helped too by Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa's foray into Wisconsin to carry on his vicious vendetta against the Kennedys. Kennedy ran well enough in the farm districts to prove that he has some farmer appeal but lost by enough to prove that he is vulnerable to Humphrey's pounding at his agriculture voting record. Humphrey was beaten in the state adjoining his own Minnesota...
While we face the most perilous times in world history, we have the classic spectacle of the U.S. Senate's taking time at public expense to carry on a sickening personal vendetta against a man of proven ability whom the President has appointed to a Cabinet position...