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...Titles. Boyden finds and places some 200 high-level managers a year-all at salaries above $25,000 annually. Currently, there are enough Boyden enlistees roaming U.S. executive suites to staff the private sector of a middle-sized nation. Among the top ones to whom Boyden points: Presidents Virgil Boyd of Chrysler, Arthur Larkin Jr. of General Foods, Stuart Silloway of Investors Diversified Services, John L. Gushman of Anchor Hocking Glass; Chairman A. King McCord of Westinghouse Air Brake; Presidents and Chairmen Harold S. Geneen of ITT, Robert O. Fickes of Philco-Ford...
Critical Changes. Strapped into the conical command module, trapped by hatches impossible to open, Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee scarcely had a chance. Now Apollo has only one hatch, and it can be opened with a ratchet from inside in about five seconds. The mechanism of the new, 70-lb. hatch, which Low says can be opened "with your little finger," is assisted by a cylinder of compressed nitrogen gas. Better for escape during ground tests, the quick-opening hatch also provides easier exit and re-entry during operations outside the spacecraft in flight. Moreover, it assures astronauts...
...will lead many people into the habit who would not otherwise get hooked; 2) lotteries in particular are played mostly by lower-income families and thus constitute an unjust tax on the poor; 3) in places like Nevada, where gambling is legal, criminal elements have certainly not faded away. Virgil Peterson, director of the Chicago crime commission, argues that the underworld inevitably gains a foothold under any licensing system by organizing legal "fronts" and establishing rival illegal operations that place the state-operated venture at a disadvantage...
...termed "the lion of metals." Underneath we note part of two arched Venetian foot-bridges, both of gold. A short masque takes place on stage, but we are put somewhat ill-at-ease by the dissonant musical score provided by Richard Peaslee (a far cry from the pleasant harmonies Virgil Thomson composed for the Festival's Merchant of exactly ten years...
...meter of English narrative poetry might evoke for English readers of Juvenal what that poet, following the examples of Lucilius and Horace, evoked for Roman readers of satire: the suggestion of an ironic tone through the epic ring of the hexameter, used for very serious purposes by Lucretius and Virgil. Lowell has done exactly this, and sometimes achieves subtle effects with his rhythmical variation. Illustrating the latter are the first twelve lines of "The Vanity of Human Wishes" Note the suggestive variation of stress in the eleventh...