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...Thousand. Scores of young bluebloods have gone to work-and often belie the aristocracy's traditional reputation for stupidity. The boards of big industrial companies are liberally studded with noble names. The names are particularly in demand as public relations men. "I do like snobs," exclaims one princely P.R. man. "They are all so kind to one!" Two of West Germany's ablest journalists are titled: Countess Marion Donhoff, political editor of Hamburg's weekly Die Zeit, and Count Hans Werner Finck von Finckenstein, a correspondent for Die Welt. Says one corporate count: "All you need...
Despite such accomplishments, neither of the McNamaras is content. The agency still is hammering at interservice jealousies, is seeking standardization of some 100,000 missile parts, is wrestling with the burgeoning problem of spare electronics parts. But supply unification obviously does work-and congressional committees can no longer point to one service that orders $77 million worth of a radio receiver that another service is stocking in huge surplus. As bureaucracy goes, that is progress...
Without Help. Since labor is jealous of surrendering any jobs, the Government's intervention does not always work-and sometimes results only in a compromise that prolongs an impossible situation. Thus, neither Continental nor United Air Lines has any problem with a third man. Without Government help, they both withstood strikes from the flight engineers without yielding, have since given engineers pilot training and trimmed their flight crews from four to three...
...Tithers suddenly become concerned about people," says Episcopal Canon Richard Williams of Seattle. "The best tithing parishes are the softest touch for the traveling missionary." Sums up Dr. John Haldeman of Miami's Allapattah Baptist Church: "Sharing in the Lord's work-and I mean contributing time, talents and effort as well as money-is the greatest means of overcoming selfishness. The Scripture says: 'For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also...
...pickets marched outside Manhattan's Grand Central Station, managed to close the New York Central Railroad. A couple of days later, the New Haven Railroad was forced to shut down. At that point, more than 100,000 commuters had been forced to find new ways of getting to work-and the snowstorm made things tougher to the point of impossibility...