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...EVERYONE DIGS FOND DU LAC, said the headline in a half-page ad in the Milwaukee Sentinel, BUT YOU JUST MIGHT. The ones who don't dig it were symbolized in a picture of three shaggy hippies glaring out at the reader...
...past Montreal. Inside the iceberg, though, all is snug and warm; a baroque symphony dances across the huge living room while the champagne bubbles and the soft lights glow. This is Habitat, the magnificent living complex designed by Israeli Architect Moshe Safdie and built on the tiny Cité du Havre peninsula for Canada's Expo '67. For a surprisingly long time, it was well in the running for the White-Elephant-of-the-Decade Award, but today it is the most desirable address in Montreal...
Some executives are worried that the present sluggishness in campus hiring may mean trouble for their companies in the future. "We will find out ten years from now that there is no one to fill the managerial ranks," predicts Monroe Sadler, Du Font's development chief. Dennis Ryan, placement director of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, adds: "The recruitment people know that this will create an air bubble in the pipeline five or ten years from now. But the personnel manager cannot get that message upstairs...
Merrill Lynch's new prominence in investment banking lends substantial clout to a firm that already had resources far beyond those of its closest competitors, Bache & Co. and Du Pont, Glore Forgan & Co. In 1970, for example, when many brokerage houses were barely treading water, Merrill Lynch posted earnings of $40.7 million; what it lost on its sluggish stock business it more than made up in other operations like the trading of commodities and Government bonds. When the final figures are in, its performance for last year will be even more spectacular. In the first nine months, its earnings...
Bear Circus by William Pène du Bois. 48 pages. Viking. $4.95. The author can do more with 26 koala bears in a gum tree, a plague of locusts and a pocketful of friendly kangaroos than you could imagine. Scenic but thin...