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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reading Valley of the Dolls and getting madder with each page. "I was appalled by the kind of books making enormous successes," he remembers. Rather than curse the darkness, McGrady lit upon the idea of how to succeed in bestsellerdom without really trying. He turned to his typewriter and, within a week, finished a plot outline and a memorandum that he distributed to nearly a hundred of his friends. "As one of Newsday's truly outstanding literary talents," the now-historic document began, "you are hereby officially invited to become the co-author of a bestselling novel." Each contributor...
Many young managers, finding that they can get more and more money and responsibility by changing jobs, do so with startling frequency. Dr. Edgar Schein of the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management estimates that companies lose half of their new college graduates within the first three to five years of employment. Graduates of 15 years ago often regarded a job, like a marriage, as being for life; today's young men are more inclined to equate it with an affair-good until something more fetching comes along. George Robbins, dean of U.C.L.A.'s Graduate School of Business Administration...
Even so, at the last count by the New York Stock Exchange in June, about $2.18 billion worth of stock was involved in failures to deliver within the required five days after each trade. Most of the snags involve over-the-counter shares, delivery of which is hampered by the lack of a clearinghouse outside New York City. Because of such jams, 18 member firms are operating under exchange-imposed restrictions. These variously mean that the firms cannot accept new accounts, cannot advertise, or must limit the number of trades per day. Since last December, the exchange has also required...
...then depreciated over eight years and sold for capital gains. The sales manager put $40,000 into a herd, of which $30,000 was borrowed from U.S. Trust. For investors in the 50%-plus tax bracket, the tax savings from this kind of investment can often repay the loan within the first year...
...whale's indispensable sense: his eyesight is on the way to becoming obsolete, and he has no sense of smell. But Dr. Scheffer cannot explain what part of the whale produces that sound, or how. He knows that the whale is capable of "caregiving behavior" to the wounded within the "family" of 30 or so in which whales travel. Still, in the end, he is not certain how social or even how intelligent the whale...