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...boss. It was -but the assistant got the ax. Adding irony to his agony, he was then asked by the controller for a final evaluation of the staff. "Well," he replied, "I'll start by telling you that you're the worst boss I've ever...
Among other depressed industries, airlines had their worst year ever because of soaring operating costs, meager traffic growth and huge outlays for jumbo jets. A sensitive indicator of the U.S. economy, airline traffic goes into a dive whenever business in general weakens. This year companies reduced business travel, presidents moved back to the tourist-class cabin, and families postponed faraway vacation trips. The nation's twelve major airlines expect to lose as much as $125 million before taxes in 1970; Trans World Airlines alone will show a deficit of up to $65 million. The industry predicts even bigger losses...
Jumping Through Hoops. The year 1970 was also notable because, more than ever before, the talk about consumer protection turned into action. Many businessmen had long scoffed at consumerism: Campbell Soup President W.B. Murphy once called the movement "a fad, of the same order as the hula hoop." Through gutsy persistence-and with help from the ecological activists-consumer protectors have forced Government and business to change. This year businessmen had to jump through the hoops of federal regulations, frequently issued by agencies long considered too impotent...
...them. This, as Critic V.S. Pritchett has pointed out, is the kinship that urbanized modern readers have with them: a dependence on the "private, mythmaking faculty" by which people dramatize their existence in a mass society. It is a kinship with Dickens as well. In the 1970s more than ever, the feeling he once voiced in a letter seems hauntingly familiar: "I don't seem able to get rid of my spectres unless I can lose them in crowds...
These case histories gradually create a portrait of Victorian life-social sport, gossip, entertainment-centered on a succession of gory crimes. In the process the author dispels once again the myth that a genteel, civilized Victorian England ever existed. Its underside was a subculture of squalor, misery and brutality, all sanctioned by public apathy...