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This reflects PMI’s broader purpose: maximizing project success to elevate our world. ### Sources * Project Management Institute | [pmi.org](/c/pmi-2026-q3/home?i=a8852b00-b2dc-4744-a62a-d4c16f758413&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Earning Power: Project Management Salary Survey—Fourteenth Edition" | [pmi.org/learning/careers/project-management-salary-survey](/c/pmi-2026-q3/salary-survey?i=a8852b00-b2dc-4744-a62a-d4c16f758413&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Global Project Management Talent Gap" | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/global-project-management-talent-gap](/c/pmi-2026-q3/talent-gap?i=a8852b00-b2dc-4744-a62a-d4c16f758413&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Maximizing Project Success" | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/project-success](/c/pmi-2026-q3/project-success?i=a8852b00-b2dc-4744-a62a-d4c16f758413&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Pulse Report 2025: Boosting Business Acumen” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/boosting-business-acumen](/c/pmi-2026-q3/business-acumen?i=a8852b00-b2dc-4744-a62a-d4c16f758413&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Pulse of the Profession® 2026: Driving Success in Complex Projects” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/driving-success-in-complex-projects](/c/pmi-2026-q3/complex-projects?i=a8852b00-b2dc-4744-a62a-d4c16f758413&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Step Up: Redefining the Path to Project Success with M.O.R.E.” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/path-to-project-success](/c/pmi-2026-q3/more-mindset?i=a8852b00-b2dc-4744-a62a-d4c16f758413&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI Education Foundation, PMIEF 2024 Annual Report, [pmi.org PMIEF 2024 Annual Report (PDF)](/c/pmi-2026-q3/pmief-report?i=a8852b00-b2dc-4744-a62a-d4c16f758413&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) ### FAQ structured data (JSON-LD, optional) by [TIME](https://time.com/author/time/) Aug 19, 1957 4:00 AM UTC by [TIME](https://time.com/author/time/) Aug 19, 1957 4:00 AM UTC Civil & Other Rights Sir: A bouquet for your coverage of the civil rights bill. If enough people could be made aware of what goes on in the South—most of the Southerners themselves don’t know—some real progress could be made. The Negro in the South is held in political, economic and social bondage to a degree that is frightening. L. M. STANDISH Savannah, Ga. Sir: About your breast-beating article on the Negro and the vote: the right to vote, like the ability to procreate, is too widespread now for the good of the country. There are already too many ignorant, misguided, impressionable, crackpot voters, as witness the representatives we choose to make our laws. One thing to our credit, however: we voters aren’t to blame for foisting Chief Justice Warren on the country. FRANCES THOMPSON Sand Springs, Okla. Sir: The article should have been published while we were loudly condemning Russia for denying freedom to the Hungarians. H. M. COHAN Los Angeles Sir: Southern Senators have been known as students and lovers of good law. Yet how can they reconcile themselves to the unconstitutionality of denying the Negro his civil rights guaranteed him in the Constitution? HAKOLD T. GOSLOW Detroit Kim Krim? Sir: That Kim Novak cover is one of the coldest and most frivolous paintings I have ever seen of anyone. Robert Vickrey may see Novak chewing beads—but it is more likely a representation of Vickrey chewing his paint brush in frustration at not being able to portray a truly classic physiognomy. JOHN KALUS Cleveland Sir: Robert Vickrey’s fine cover certainly shows the transition from bitchery to virtue—a grand job. Hope Harry Cohn’s protégé completes the full cycle. FINBARR M. SLATTERY Asdee, Ireland Sir: Re Kim Novak’s vacuous eyes, her custard-bowl face: what Harry Cohn hath wrought! C. W. NELSON Minneapolis Sir: If Kim Novak marries that Mac Krim, she will turn up with the creepy name of Kim Krim, which should make her right at home with the creepy creeps in Hollywood. AL COONEY Tucson, Ariz. I interviewed Kim Novak one time but, unfortunately, didn’t know about that last-minute button routine. The only thing Photographer Clayton Knipper and I could get her to take off was her shoes. Here’s the picture we got. BILL TANNER The Cleveland Press Cleveland Church v. Scholarship Sir: In commenting on Father Weigel’s criticism of American Catholic scholarship, your Letters correspondents \[July 29\] made the unscholarly assumption that his strictures touched Catholic scholarship as such. The criticism, which is now a commonplace among American Catholic intellectuals, does not bear on the admirable Catholic scholarship of Europe. Now that Catholic intellectualism in the U.S. is on the point of coming to maturity (and criticisms like that of Father Weigel are signs of this maturation), our remaining problems are largely financial. If someone were to give me one-fourth of the funds of Harvard, we would, in this graduate school, make fairly short work of the deficiencies of American Catholic scholarship. R. J. HENLE, S.J. Dean of the Graduate School Saint Louis University St. Louis Sir: Where is the exciting, responsible Protestant scholarship in our country? Is it not the American atmosphere which denies the worth of it rather than merely American Catholics? Disrespect for intellectual values belongs, alas, to all Americans, most especially to those bigoted Protestants who, knowing not of what they speak, nevertheless hasten to dash off letters to editors. MRS. JAMES M. MURRAY Takoma Park, Md. How to get to Hollywood Sir: Thanks for your July 29 article on Mary Leona Ennis \[who almost became Miss U.S.A.\]. Such a rise to fame seems to indicate that even if you cheat, lie and play on the sympathy of your fellow man, you can get on TV, become a nightclub personality and get a Hollywood contract. It was most appropriate that your article was printed under ”Manners & Morals,” neither of which was displayed by Mrs. Ennis. FRANK J. RIGGS JR. North Haven, Conn. Sir: It is a universal custom for women to conceal their ages, but to deny two husbands and two kids—that takes the cake. TOM MACCALDER Baton Rouge Sir: Is not a yearning for bright lights, attention and luxury nearly universal among young girls, married and unmarried? Perhaps many girls like Mary Leona would be happier if such contests were open to all beautiful girls, married or not. IMELDA MCNAMEE Glendale, Calif. Clothes Don’t Make the Family Sir: I was not shocked with English Artist Fretwell’s Holy Family in modern dress \[July 29\] nearly so much as I was surprised at seeing paintings of the Madonna, with an Indian face, on the walls of Mexican churches. If Mary can have an Indian face in Mexico. I don’t see why England can’t have her with a wind-blown haircut. AFTON WYNN Austin, Texas Sir: I wonder why Artist Fretwell didn’t go all-out in translating the New Testament into modern art by portraying the Holy Family mounted on a motorcycle for the Flight into Egypt. A. R. OWENS Kansas City, Mo. Sir: In old clothes or new clothes, Arthur Fretwell’s Madonna in “Nativity” is still the Madonna. Look at her face. MARGARET E. DOBKINS Steelville, Mo. Nine & Eight Sir: Your Aug. 5 report on the price of our new pen is causing confusion at the trade level. It is correct that Paper-Mate will market a new low-priced pen, but it will retail at 98¢ — not 89¢ as you stated. NEISON HARRIS President Paper-Mate Co. Chicago \> TIME’S pen blotted. — ED. Where’s the Eight Ball? Sir: Concerning “Small Minds, Big Job” \[July 22\]: Don’t blame the draft for Army “eight balls.” The draft is the only source of intelligence the Army has. Most Army regulars will quickly admit that they stay in ‘the Army because they couldn’t make a living on the outside. The Air Force took the only administrative talent in the military and got out while the going was good. The army is just an eight-ball outfit. CHARLES B. LARSON St. Joseph, Mo. Sir: Certainly there are many jobs in the Army which require special aptitudes. However, even in this atomic age, most of the jobs held by enlisted men of the lower pay grades do not require a high degree of technical skill. The most important qualities of a soldier are now, and always have been, physical fitness, and a receptiveness for discipline. FRANK B. HASTIE JR. U.S. Army % Postmaster New York City Sir: The small minds are not those eliminated from service but usually those that do the eliminating. Because a person has a low I.Q. doesn’t make him an “eight ball.” If the spirit of the regulations were used in eliminations, then possibly the Army could get rid of some of its “deadwood” hangers on, such as the NCOs who can barely read or write or who do not have the mentality to handle a lower-ranking G.I. other than by browbeating. Sp/3 ROBERT J. BERTOLINI U.S. Army % Postmaster New York City Parlor Games Sir: Enjoyed your July 29 report of Steve Allen’s “Scrambled Book List.” We’re all set to play this new parlor game, and are beginning with Time and Time Again by Tommy Manville. VIRGINIA LIEM PEARSON Irving, Texas Sir: How about The Last Angry Man by Harry S. Truman? ANITA BRADSHAW New York City Sir: All Shook Up by Molotov. DOROTHY SAFFRON Halifax, N.S. Sir: The Robe by Christian Dior. JIMMY RAYFIELD Tampa Sir: A game using TV programs would be amusing too: for example, What’s My Line? could be produced by Porfirio Rubirosa. MARIE E. 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