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...Daphne du Maurier's story and Alfred Hitchcock's movie, The Birds, it is the birds that go berserk and attack man. Last week in New York City, it was man who, after generations of meek submission to fowl indignities, turned upon the birds. The city government was considering exterminating the pigeons that drop their excrement on park benches, statues and hurrying pedestrians. City officials are convinced at last that the pigeons - up to 5,000,000 of them, by some of the wilder estimates - are an intolerable menace to health...
...Times. Disappointed by the Valley, Cowles sold out for about $2,000,000 to Lammot Copeland Jr., son of Du Font's president. The paper has resumed its old name and much of its old flavor. Russell Quisenberry is back, as board chairman. The new publisher is a self-styled "Constitutionalist" named Ben Reddick, a public relations man who ran the triweekly Newport Beach News-Press so haphazardly that the Audit Bureau of Circulation was moved to comment in 1961: "The condition of the circulation records made an ac curate audit for the previous 24 months impossible...
...Concubine, Lofts (7) 10. The Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier...
...bemused by the number of young executives who made the obituary columns, used to think the danger was real. Then they realized that ditchdiggers seldom make the obit pages, and they decided to take a more careful statistical look at executives to see how the bosses fared. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., with battalions of executives and divisions of manual workers, was an ideal place for the study...
...A.M.A. Journal, Du Pont Statistician Sidney Pell and Physician C. Anthony D'Alonzo report that presidents, vice presidents and plant managers have an annual heart-attack rate of only 2.2 per 1,000 while the manual workers' rate is 3.2 Du Pont's clerical workers have a rate of 4.0 per 1,000. Among those listed as clerical workers, evidently, are many who have failed of promotion to executive status and are suffering the stress of frustration...