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Immediately after the decision, ex-FBI Agent Younger ordered a Miranda survey taken throughout his county, which has the largest criminal-case load in the U.S. (see cover story). Younger's study covers a three-week period in June and July and deals with an impressive total of 2,780 felony cases. Younger admits that he was "amazed" by the results of the survey...
...through-the-ranks federal careerist since 1933, made his mark among mortgage men by turning the depression-born Home Owners' Loan Corp. from a money loser into a profit maker. Taking over Fannie Mae in 1950, he tightened up loose operating procedures, chopped his staff while the work load doubled, won a reputation as an administrator who could say no without ruffling too many tempers. Today, at 68, Baughman waves aside talk of retiring. He runs Fannie Mae so efficiently that it regularly shows a substantial profit ($603 million since its birth), and pays the equivalent of corporate income...
Every day there are bloody clashes by the dozen between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese troops, which carry almost all the Delta load. The three divisions of government troops in the Delta conduct some 30-odd battalion-size actions and 2,500 small patrols a week. Last week a truckload of South Vietnamese Delta reserves was disastrously ambushed. In An Xuyen province, government troops have tangled repeatedly with particularly bothersome Viet Cong battalions...
...Betty Bacall issued a brisk ultimatum to herself: "Damn it, straighten up! Pull yourself together and point yourself in the right direction. MOVE!" The move was back to work: "It helped me enormously. There's always something about making a decision in your life. It takes a load off your back." At work she found herself possessed of one of the strengths peculiar to the middle years: "It is necessary for anyone to practice his craft to do it well and to improve. But also, in a strange way you have to live a certain amount of life...
Efficient maintenance conserves his own sturdy load factor (5 ft. 11 in., 185 lbs.) under the pressures of his $122,000-a-year job. Tillinghast carefully budgets time for such morale-boosting chores as awarding 20-year pins to employees. With his wife Lisette, he lives in a 22-room Georgian house in suburban Bronxville, N.Y., golfs (badly), shoots clay pigeons (much better), occasionally plays high-stakes poker (superbly). Though little in his background prepared him for the airline business, Tillinghast holds: "Special knowledge is a lot less important than a keen mind." That...