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...side from both Dale Carnegie and Harvard Business School. Since becoming chief executive three years ago, he has bought out Cream of Wheat and the James O. Welch candy company* of Cambridge, Mass., as well as biscuit bakers in Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, England and France. A notebook in his uncluttered desk holds his secret expansion plans for the company. All Bickmore will say is that within the next five years he intends to spread more products abroad, push sales close to $800 million, and lift profits 50% above last year's record $30 million. Helping out the cause...
...NEUROTIC'S NOTEBOOK by Mignon McLaughlin. 96 pages. Bobbs-Merrill...
...fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures." In this book of aphorisms, jotted down in the time she can spare from her job as managing editor of Glamour magazine, Authoress McLaughlin impales her prey with the cool detachment of a lepidopterist. A neurotic, according to Neurotic's Notebook, "has perfect vision in one eye, but cannot remember which," and goes through life feeling "like a Christmas shopper who keeps dropping his packages, and it's raining." Other glimpses through the rain...
...desperate search for someone to greet. The road was lined with small gray shacks of the sort owned by whites and rented at exhorbitant prices to Negroes. As she neared a cracked old structure that had settled dangerously on its western foundation, she stopped suddenly, flipped open the notebook that she carried, entered a remark, and then looked up again in time to wave generously at a Negro who was crossing the road halfway down the block...
...soared 270% in the past year. The location is no coincidence, for President William C. Norris, 52, is an ardent baseball and football fan and an exhaustively meticulous planner. He keeps the company's growth timetable projected for years ahead in a top-secret, five-inch-thick notebook. Such elaborate forethought has paid off. In six years since he left Sperry Rand's Univac division to start on his own, Norris has made Control Data into a company with yearly sales of more than $63 million; last week he announced the purchase of the California-based control-systems...