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Every Kid a Genius. Despite his success, Newcomer is a chronic worrier who frets about the future of his schools, sometimes goes home and sips three bourbons and water to relax-then frets about having taken three drinks. He worries about integrating his schools, so far partly accomplished by bussing Negroes to junior high and high school. He once strode into a TV studio to interrupt an education speech by Governor Grant Sawyer, accused .him of "irresponsible leadership" in bucking most educational problems to the rural-dominated legislature. When an official of the Nevada Taxpayers Association called Newcomer...
...most prominent worrier is Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. In his Wall Street-shaking speech last month, he stressed that one of the disquieting similarities between the 1920s and the 1960s is "a large increase in private domestic debt." Martin and some other credit experts are concerned about the spiraling of corporate debt, which rose 61% last year, now tops $400 billion. They also lament the "sloppiness" of the debt-meaning that eager lenders are reaching downward to extend credit to borrowers who never before would have qualified for it. To moderate the rapid growth of credit...
That sounds good. It needs something else, though." Breaking into a cherubic glow, he intones : "John Fitzgerald Lambert. Republican President of the United States." A born worrier, he glances abruptly toward his wife. "You don't think being a Protestant will hurt his chances...
Everyone can also be a worrier, for insecurity is the rule. The admen live in a world where the stealing of accounts and executives is a way of life, and where a client's hunch or whim may erase a score of jobs overnight. On average, the U.S. adman changes his job once every three years during his 30s and once every four years during his 40s-a far swifter turnover than in corporate life as a whole...
...eyed Jan Tate decided last summer that she could fill a Lone Star need by advising Texas small-towners on their big-sounding Texas problems. Packing her three "kiddos" and a picnic lunch in a car, she personally visited Texas weekly editors, persuaded 44 of them to buy "The Worrier's Guide" for $1 or $2 a column. As "Jan Webster," she plows through some 120 letters a week, often squinting at an eight-page scrawl of a distressed farmwife, edits the most interesting to a printable size. A "Dear Jan" sampler...