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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=320751e3-f240-4acd-81a0-002396d29c42&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=320751e3-f240-4acd-81a0-002396d29c42&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=320751e3-f240-4acd-81a0-002396d29c42&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Maximizing Project Success" | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/project-success](/c/pmi-2026-q3/project-success?i=320751e3-f240-4acd-81a0-002396d29c42&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=320751e3-f240-4acd-81a0-002396d29c42&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=320751e3-f240-4acd-81a0-002396d29c42&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=320751e3-f240-4acd-81a0-002396d29c42&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=320751e3-f240-4acd-81a0-002396d29c42&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) ### FAQ structured data (JSON-LD, optional) by [TIME](https://time.com/author/time/) Jun 23, 1958 4:00 AM UTC by [TIME](https://time.com/author/time/) Jun 23, 1958 4:00 AM UTC Warmth for Alaska Sir: Congratulations on your fine cover picture of Alaska’s Governor Stepovich and the comprehensive article \[June 9\]. We regret that the roll-call bell did not interrupt him while he was eating a sandwich of our excellent Alaska halibut instead of the variety of seafood you mentioned. VERNON AND MILDRED COUNTER Petersburg, Alaska Sir: Would Canada consider selling a corridor through to Alaska? Would the U.S. buy it? C. DANOU Chicago Sir: Certainly Alaska deserves statehood, but your story and the popular Ice Palace (Edna Ferber might still have the bestselling habit, but she certainly does not have the feel for Alaska) fail to convey the warmth and fighting spirit which govern the people. JOSEPH MCLAUGHLIN Westbury, N.Y. Congratulations to Alaska for her alert-looking, clear-eyed, virile sons, native or adopted. The contrast between their expressions and the Beat Generation pictures (in the Books section) is most impressive. BARBARA WILSON Milford, N.H. Men, Women & Children Sir: I have been trying to figure out why the U.S.S.R. has slowly but surely been getting the upper hand in world leadership. Your June 2 cover story on Soviet Scientist Xesmeyanov helped me a lot in this respect. In the same issue, however, two photographs gave me a possible clue. One showed five U.S. Governors bowling with pineapples and coconuts, the other showed fifth-graders ”playing” at biology in Leningrad. JUSTUS LEWY Rio de Janeiro Sir: In your excellent article you failed to mention the fact that the U.S.S.R. is utilizing its best female as well as male brains, and is unique in its representation of the feminine gender in scientific pursuits. MARTHA ELLIS New Orleans Hospital for Bulls? Sir: In your otherwise fine June 2 article on Dr. Gimenez Guinea, you said that Manolete died from a ruptured femoral artery. This is not so. My source? Dr. Gimenez Guinea. I’ve been under his care here for the last 13 days after suffering an 8-in.-deep horn wound given me by a two-year-old animal while practicing. Like Manolete’s wound, the horn missed my femoral by a centimeter but stopped short of the cluster of smaller veins and arteries in the groin, which is what did Manolete in. BARNABY CONRAD Madrid Sir: Re the Sanatorio de los Toreros: May we assume that the Spaniards also maintain a hospital for horses gored by the bulls? H. SIBLEY Nuevo, Calif. Sir: I also hope the bull recovers. JAMES A. SINCLAIR Centerville, La. No Business Like Sir: I was quite pleased and impressed with your May 26 article regarding the second generation in motion pictures. There are some third and fourth generations in the American theater. I fall into the category of the third. My grandfather, Frank Keenan, who came from the stage, was a big star in silent pictures ; I am sure that my father, Ed Wynn, needs no introduction, and I have been in pictures for the last 15 years. KEENAN WYNN Los Angeles ¶ For a look at Grandfather Keenan, Father Wynn and Reader Wynn, see cuts. — ED. Money & Madison Avenue Sir: Adman Charles Brower \[June 2\] laments that when the thrill has gone out of buying and pride out of ownership, we’ll be “headed for something worse than a mere depression . . . that none of us are going to enjoy.” When that millennium is reached, perhaps we’ll rediscover the real values of life, which are far removed from the marketplace. PAT JOHNSTON New York City Sir: Put Brower on a salary of $90 a week, raising four kids, and he’ll play a different tune. M. H. BROOKS Pitman, N.J. Sir: The fact that U.S. citizens no longer take as much pleasure in material luxuries, i.e., clothes and cars, is a healthy sign. Other nations will respect us for raising our standards. EILEEN THOMPSON Lewisburg, Pa. Vertical Frontier Sir: Again, in “Outward Bound” \[May 26\], you have scored with your characteristic succinct, fascinating and understandable presentation on space medicine. A few years ago you kindled the interest of your readers in this subject with “The Vertical Frontier” \[Oct. it, 1954\]. On behalf of this association, of which practically all the scientists you mention are members, thank you for such lucid scientific reporting. M. S. WHITE, M.D. President Aero Medical Association Marion, Ohio Sir: What this specialty of aviation medicine needs is a good scientific term for weightlessness. ROBERT J. BENFORD, M.D. Editor The Journal of Aviation Medicine Washington, D.C. ¶ What the language needs is more readily understood scientific terms. What’s wrong with weightlessness?—ED. Era of Good Feeling? Sir: Re Theologian Weigel’s remark concerning the size of Protestant church congregations \[June 2\]: at the church where I worship, we are too busy ushering in some 5,000 people (half of whom are under 40) to the morning services to think about what the Catholic church “across the street” might be doing. All of this without the benefit of candles, liturgy, vestments or statues. Merely a personal devotion to Jesus Christ. ROBERT CARRELLI South Gate, Calif. Those Cars Sir: I never looked my car over good before I took it—that was my biggest mistake. When I asked the salesman why there were big cracks between the trunk lid and the body, he said that the water was supposed to run down the cracks and out. The dashboard rattles and squeaks, and the chrome is rusting. ROLAND JORGENSEN Cincinnati Sir: I have treated more than one case of completely disrupted nerves due to the unreliability and just plain junkiness of U.S.-made automobiles. In fact I have been my own patient over the same thing on a few occasions. J. N. BYRD JR., M.D. Silver City, N. Mex. Sir: I have just returned from a Scout camp-out. In my Detroit monster, I packed five boys and their gear. It was a little crowded. I guess those loudmouthed enthusiasts for the half-pint foreign cars either don’t have families, or they let some other father take their sons to camp-outs. ROBERT GUY O’HARA Ferguson, Mo. Below the Summit Sir: In the May 19 issue, TIME referred, in connection with Dean Acheson’s speech at Detroit, to “the hand-wringers of his own party (including . . . State Department key man, George Kennan) who insist on the international summit conference even if held on propaganda-serving Soviet terms.” The only public statement I can recall making on this subject in recent years was in the course of one of the Reith Lectures, delivered last fall in London over the BBC. Here I said: “… I would not wish to say that there is never a time for summit meetings. There is a time for almost everything in the strange world of diplomacy. But surely, if the usefulness of these senior figures is to be protected and the raising of false hopes avoided, such meetings should occur, if at all, at the end of the negotiating process, and for the purpose of formalizing agreements already arrived at, rather than at the beginning and as a means of starting the wearisome process of accommodation … It is not the hectic encounters of senior statesmen under the spotlight of publicity which we need; it is the patient, quiet, orderly use of the regular channels of private communication between governments . . .” GEORGE F. KENNAN Oxford, England ¶ Pundit Kennan has been criticized by Dean Acheson (his former boss) for being opposed to a strongly armed NATO and in favor of neutralization of Central Europe, but he should not have been included in the summit-at-the-Soviet-price group. TIME erred.—ED. Time & Again Sir: Re the world-affairs course at San Leandro (Calif.) High School: At 18, I am already an old TIMEr and read your magazine as my own world-affairs course. I think Mrs. Levine’s idea is great. I wish I had the opportunity to join her class. MARGARET B. LLOYD London Old School Togs Sir: Your recent article on the British schoolgirl’s uniform annoyed me intensely. There is nothing smarter than a box-pleated gym slip, fresh white blouse and colored tie. True, the stockings are not glamorous, but think of the English climate. Give me the English schoolgirl type to the overpainted sweater girl and sloppy bobby-soxer of the States. 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