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...everyone who turns down a Harvard instructorship simply wants a flashier title. A longer appointment obviously makes the job more attractive by offering greater security. Also, Dean Ford has promised periodic pay increases to instructors appointed for more than one year, and even the base pay of $7,000 per year may rise. Most important, instructors will be eligible for foundation and government grants spanning two or three years. (A University rule bars faculty members from accepting grants which extend beyond the end of their appointments...
...means a harder life for companies. Big companies often suffer a profit cut or even a loss on a new product that is quickly copied or improved upon, and even the copiers frequently cannot recover the expense of tooling and production before the product succumbs to newer, better or flashier things. The race to get to the consumer first has forced companies to shorten their product development time, and in some cases has actually made the product secondary in the sweat to sell it. Chicago's Alberto-Culver was so eager to beat Procter & Gamble's Head...
...generally making a hash of what is not a very good Cole Porter show at best. But from the very beginning of Act II, we are delightfully, tunefully, spiritedly taken in hand and tossed into that wonderful Dream Kingdom, Drumbeat and Song Land, where girls are goilier, flesh is flashier, and nonsense is all the sense we crave...
...year, Maurice Stans is a moonlighter. Once a week, he addresses himself to trends in business and Government and turns out a newspaper column that makes sober sense. Measured by the mail he brings to the Los Angeles Times-Mirror Syndicate, Stans is more popular than any of his flashier colleagues...
...Moon. If anything, Brother Cletis is an even flashier fielder, so good that Yankee Coach Wally Moses, who has watched many a third baseman come and go, calls him "as good as I have ever seen." His one fault is at the plate-a lightweight lifetime batting average of .226. enough to make a Yankee wince. But this spring the Yankees took him firmly in hand, changed his stance and taught him to harness his wild, one-for-the-moon swing. Last week Boyer was batting .368-tops on the team; he had hit five homers (including his first grand...