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Charles Adams, 27, Washington University of St. Louis, held a job as a night watchman while doing his undergraduate work. Then he joined Del Monte in San Francisco, was called up for a hitch as an Army officer, later entered Washington University's graduate business program for Negroes. At school he helped to start a small investment company, was in the top 10% of his class, and won the award for the best dissertation. Adams is aware that quite a few recruiters are going out of their way to woo Negroes, but he disdains sinecures. "I want to join...
...Stanford for his M.B.A. Now he will combine his business skills and social concerns as an executive of the International Basic Economy Corp., which finances development projects in poorer nations. Knaebel said: "It's the old question: do you want revolution, or do you want to go to work and try to develop resources and improve the world? I think that people today have rejected the New Left view that the system is rotten. They want to get in the system and do something about it, to work for the ends that they think are worthwhile...
...deceiving him with everyone from a Royal Mountie to the wife of a visiting fisherman (Vincene Wallace, 37-24-35). A Mama Sutra of seductresses, Vixen is an ideal utility infielder, at home in any position. Audiences willing to endure lapses into good taste will be rewarded by a work too juvenile to be considered a stag movie, but happily free of the social-minded pretentiousness that mars more serious sexploitation films...
...Economy of Cities, she asks "why some cities grow and others stagnate and decay." To find the answer, she develops a beguiling window-box theory of economics in which personal conviction and anecdote weigh more than statistics. The ingredient essential to the vitality of cities, she asserts, is "new work being added to old." Innovative energy comes from small, independent, hustling entrepreneurs. "The little movements at the hubs," says Jane Jacobs, "turn the great wheels of economic life...
Parallels with the present-day U.S. are freely drawn. Such cities as Detroit, Pittsburgh and Rochester, the author warns, are more like Manchester than Birmingham. Each depends on a few specialized products and so does not enough encourage new kinds of work. Boston, on the other hand, looks much healthier to Jane Jacobs, for it has revived its stagnating economy with a swarm of small, flexible electronics and research firms. Postwar Los Angeles also draws praise for spawning new companies to produce goods and services (sliding glass doors, mechanical saws) once imported from other cities. In range of activities, though...