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...well-paid public relations vice presidents of business firms. Alan Shepard grew rich in real estate; John Glenn has a good chance of becoming U.S. Senator from Ohio next November; Richard Gordon is an executive with the New Orleans Saints football team; and Edgar Mitchell runs an outfit for the study of extrasensory perception...
...venture into the city to look for a cop who might be able to help me. This was 7:00 a.m., the precise time the bulls are run through the streets, and everyone was gathered around the bullring in anticipation. I swallowed my embarrassment at my rather unflattering outfit and began asking policemen outside the arena if they understood English or French. They would just stare at me, point at my legs, and laugh, "Pantalones! Pantalones!" I was on the verge of breaking down and I soon began to make obscene gestures at the people laughing at me. Finally...
Donald B. Rice, 35, took over the Rand Corp., the prototypical think tank, three years ago, at a time when the outfit was in deep disfavor with the Government because a former employee named Ellsberg had pinched some classified papers from its files. Young as he was, Rice was highly experienced: he became Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense just eight years out of college, and a year later, in 1970, was an assistant director at the Office of Management and Budget. Rice has sought to balance Rand's emphasis on war games and other national security matters by expanding...
Henry B. Schacht, 39, went from Harvard's Business Administration School to a small management outfit run by a member of the board of Cummins Engine Co. He soon was lured to Cummins, a manufacturer of heavy-duty diesels based in Columbus, Ind., as financial vice president. Within five years, at age 35, he became president. While rapidly expanding the company (1973 net sales: $686 million), Schacht has tenaciously supported strict antipollution standards and advocated a more socially conscious stance for industry. Business, he says, should create change and force its pace...
...Jane Greenwood has fashioned are lovely, though sometimes a bit late for the period. The shipwrecked sibling twins Sebastian and Viola (disguised as a pageboy) wear Cavalier rather than Elizabethan dress, similar to the "Blue Boy" garb Greenwood provided for the 1966 production. Unwisely she made the Clown's outfit insufficiently differentiated from those of the rest of Olivia's household...