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...have never been able to figure out why children raised in homes with everything would become promiscuous, resort to drugs or commit violent acts. Whitney Young might possibly be right. Maybe, behind those "bland, sterile, antiseptic gilded ghettos" there really is a sickness, and someone should make a study of this to find out. He might discover that we need black America more than it needs...
...image of their Prime Minister as social pacesetter. "I have had it up to here," said a recent letter writer in a Toronto newspaper, "with pictures of our charismatic Prime Minister on vacation, smiling affably and benignly in his impeccable ski suit at some invariably exclusive and expensive resort, or dancing with some invariably rich chick after dining on squab...
Confusing Labyrinth. La Plagne, built in 1961, is almost exclusively a family resort. As such, it is a trifle staid by skiers' standards. Located near the older resort of Courcherel, the resort has 23 well-maintained runs serviced by 17 lifts, but the runs are strictly for beginners or less adventuresome intermediates. Like Flaine, La Plagne is designed as a forum in which a sometimes confusing labyrinth of over-and-underground tunnels connect the various hotels and condominiums with the enormous shopping center. After nine years, the interior of the gondola that carries people...
...often betrays himself by telltale signs. He will work long hours, nag his staff about petty details, or replace competent subordinates with yes men. Refusal to take a vacation is an almost certain symptom. Failures are terrified that their shortcomings will be discovered in their absence. Sometimes the failures resort to elaborate -and costly-ruses to cover their traces. In one TV-set manufacturing company, for example, a vice president could not meet his production goals and shipped empty boxes to distributors. When they complained, he insisted it had all been a mistake; by that time, he had managed...
...last resort, the most humane method may be simply to fire the man, with an honest explanation of the reason why. "Being fired," says Los Angeles Management Consultant Thomas J. Johnston, "is another part of the executive job"-and the ability to bounce back from dismissal is perhaps the sternest test of executive fiber...