Word: workloads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover, clear-eyed, poker-backed and 85 this week, returned to New York City from San Francisco to celebrate his birthday and catch up on his awesome workload (writing four books, answering scores of letters, being chairman of the Boys Clubs of America). That afternoon he went to Yankee Stadium to toss in the first ball in a nostalgic two-inning game between Yankee oldtimers and their erstwhile opponents from the National League foes...
...shaped up as the most lopsided cup challenge in years. The U.S. team had been racked by dissension. Ham Richardson, the U.S. top-ranked player, was dropped by nonplaying Captain Perry Jones as a singles player on the ground that his diabetic condition made him unfit to handle the workload, complained bitterly and publicly that he had been treated shabbily. Even U.S. Pro Promoter (and part-time team coach) Jack Kramer had conceded victory to the Aussies...
...Memo-Passer. Parkinson offers two reasons for the phenomenon: 1) "An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals"; 2) "Officials make work for each other." Is Official A's workload making him miss the commuter's special? He will not split his functions with B, a potential rival. Instead he will create two subordinates, C and D who in a relatively short time will also accrete two subordinates apiece. Although soon seven men will do the work formerly done by one, none will be idle, for "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion...
...tutor, having removed the extremes of scholastic aptitude from his sections, would be able to combine the average students into one group. While such a plan would not reduce the tutor's actual workload, it does offer him and the advanced student a chance to use their time to the best possible advantage. The tutor will derive definite satisfaction from helping worthwhile students to improve themselves, and the better students gain the opportunity to develop their powers of expression and analysis. Although the plan may tend to segregate sophomores too early in their careers, it is certainly worth a conscientious...
...practice. He welcomed back Aide Bernard Shanley, who had left the White House staff briefly during the President's illness. Shanley's main duties are to hold down the number of presidential visitors to reasonable proportions and to devise ways of easing the President's workload; e.g., when Ike last week signed documents appointing 155 persons to public office, the lists were consolidated so as to reduce the number of necessary signatures to ten. All in all it was a well-spent week, and the New York Times said happily of the President: "He is giving...