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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That human institutions require periodic redesign (if only because of their tendency to decay) is not a minor fact about them. How curious it is, then, that in all of history no people has seriously attempted to take into account the aging of institutions and to provide for their continuous renewal. Why shouldn't we be the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: TOWARD A SELF-RENEWING SOCIETY | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...Wisconsin, in a response to the Jensen article commissioned by Harvard's Review. "But this is not to say that the magnitude and direction of genetic racial differences are predictable." In American society, he adds, the environmental difference between being black and being white could of itself account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Intelligence: Is There a Racial Difference? | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...Members account for about 82 per cent of the Coop's sales. Thus, 82 per cent of the Coop's profits go back to the membership at the end of the year. The other 18 per cent gets cut in half by taxes, and the remainder is all the Coop has left for reinvestment and growth. Although the Coop appears to have a lot of money, it really doesn't. There are not large sums hidden away in the vaults of the Harvard Trust. In fact, whenever the Coop has needed to expand in recent years...

Author: By Alan S. Geismer jr., | Title: When Will the Coop Ever Change? Part II | 4/9/1969 | See Source »

...margin up or the expenses down. If we get the margin up, people will cut our throats because prices are higher. If we get expenses down, we have to cut services. For instance, we could have a lot of money if we cut back or eliminated our charge account business or our Saturday check-cashing department, but we consider these important services for our members and ones they would not want to see eliminated...

Author: By Alan S. Geismer jr., | Title: When Will the Coop Ever Change? Part II | 4/9/1969 | See Source »

...THEM, one of the closest, has finally chosen to present what he knew of Hammarskjold in an attempt to "answer some of the questions too often asked me." What Bo Beskow has written is not a biography of Hammarskjold, not even an account of Hammarskjold's life during the years Beskow knew him; it makes no attempt to recount the man's career, except when it impinges upon Beskow's private story. Perhaps even Beskow's term for his book, "a portrait," is incorrect, because one does not begin to get, even at a single point in time, a full...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: Hammarskjold | 4/8/1969 | See Source »

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