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After a jampacked workday that saw him in his office at 7:30 a.m., President Kennedy's personal representative in Berlin, retired Army General Lucius Clay, got away from it all at the German premiere of My Fair Lady, where he seized the opportunity for an intermission tete-a-tete with velvet-clad Ingrid Bergman, whose impresario husband, Lars Schmidt, was the show's producer. Topic of discussion between Ingrid (whose gown Mrs. Clay described as "a Grecian toga cut") and Clay: "only the show," which left German critics digging for superlatives last lavished on the works...
...competition and cost-consciousness across the land, Jones in the past year logged 112,687 miles on commercial planes alone; he uses the flight time to catch up on his reading (currently: Protracted Conflict: A Challenging Study of Communist Strategy). When he is at home base, Jones's workday begins when he awakens at 6:30 a.m. In his ten-room, $150,000 ranch house, Jones starts each day simply by "lying in bed and just thinking for half an hour-it's a time when my objectivity is at its best." Then he plunges into a furious...
Jaguar's greatest competitive edge comes from combining mass-production methods with a high standard of workmanship. Each car is checked 47 times during its production. Sir William prowls the plant each workday for at least an hour, often singles out one car for a minute personal inspection. He has turned cars back for no greater fault than a slight wrinkle in the leather upholstery. To reduce costly model changeovers, he aims for car designs that will not be quickly dated, makes certain a car is engineered to last...
Cops and Robbers. Ulbricht's formidable stamina kept his colleagues on an 18-hour workday, and his astonishing memory enabled him to pull the names and addresses of hundreds of loyal Communists out of an ever ready mental file. "When we set up the East Zone's first Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs," recalls Wolfgang Leonhard, a member of Ulbricht's original Berlin group who has since defected to the West, "Ulbricht assigned every department head and his staff-some 40 appointments, down to the motor-pool boss-in about an hour...
There was a slice of pie in the sky for everybody. Workers, who now must moonlight on second jobs to get enough to live on, were promised a six-hour workday ("this will come within ten years"). But at the 21st Party Congress three years ago, this same starry goal was promised for 1961; it was even part of Lenin's grandiose scheme of 1919. The draft plan spoke of a "fourfold increase" in meat production during the next two decades, but discreetly did not quote Moscow's own published statistics showing the slaughter rate to be increasing...