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...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...
...Kama Sutra (Hindu Art of Love) is to ancient India as Courses of Instruction for Harvard and Radcliffe is to modern Cambridge. With ecstasy on Tuesday and Thursday (and Saturday) in mind, the CRIMSON omphaloskeptic undertakes to reveal the secrets of the second 190 pages of the 1963-64 manual of truth and beauty...
...Army classics which have enjoyed a wide circulation are FM 21-13, Department of the Army Field Manual: The Soldier's Guide, and The Combat Leader's Field Guide. The reader should not be put off by the austerity of their titles, for each of these books is a masterpiece of the field manual genre, written in a distinctive style...
...world of books, the Army has shown itself to be the leader among the armed services. Unlike the more excitable Air Force, which once published a manual accusing large blocs of Protestant ministers of Communist leanings, the Army encourages solid literary achievement. Air Force pamphleteers, like the Grace Metaliouses of the civilian sphere, may enjoy a brief notoriety. But Army books are more likely to end up on the shelves of serious collectors...