Word: working
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fans no longer have to rely on memory. The man who became his era's favorite radio disk jockey, then gave television Garroway at Large and launched the Today show is back at work in a 90-minute, late-morning local show in Boston...
TENSION kills few people outright, but there is evidence that the increasing competitiveness of business has stretched many executives to their emotional and physical limits. While the work week is declining for laborers, more and more executives are discovering that there are no longer enough hours available to study reports, attend meetings and make decisions, let alone spend time with the family. A study of Chicago businessmen by Daniel D. Howard Associates, management consultants, showed that the average chief executive puts in 53 hours at his desk every week, then carries another ten hours of work home. At the Ashland...
...effort to keep abreast. To make things tougher for them, jet travel has broken down the constraints of distance. With the farthest plant or subsidiary only hours away by air, many executives get into the habit of dashing off on grueling one-day inspection trips-and thus work ever harder in the office, trying to catch up. Typically, Goodyear Chairman Russell DeYoung last year jetted 104,000 miles to keep track of the company's business...
...their subjects into two groups. The "A" man is aggressive and harddriving, the kind of competitor who hates to lose. He is almost surely heading for trouble. The "B" man is more relaxed. He does not take his problems away from the office, and he is occasionally late to work. He also lives longer. Since the study began, 250 of its subjects have had heart attacks-nearly three out of four were "A" men. "The old Horatio Alger story," says Dr. Friedman, "is becoming the biggest killer in the U.S." The doctors cannot yet explain the link between stress...
...Middle. Other doctors dispute the relationship between hard, stressful work and poor health. Dr. Lawrence Hinkle of Cornell studied the health of 270,000 Bell System employees over a five-year period and found that executives suffered 43% fewer heart attacks than blue-collar workers. He concludes that a process of natural selection operates to ensure that the men who make it to the president's office are the strongest...