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...when as little as 2% of the work force will be employed, warn that the whole concept of people as producers of goods and services will become obsolete as automation advances. Even the most moderate estimates of automation's progress show that millions of people will have to adjust to leisurely, "nonfunctional" lives, a switch that will entail both an economic wrench and a severe test of the deeply ingrained ethic that work is the good and necessary calling...
...dancing was also interestingly representational. When the girl first gets to Paris and attempts to adjust to her new environment, she is imitating the motions of people in street scenes and of the painter. But before she has left, she has affected as well as adjusted to a new community, for the others are imitating her. And probably the most beautiful part of the whole show is the representation of the love affair, and its culmination, in an unmistakable, yet tasteful manner...
...Continental, Ford turned two prototype GTs over to Carroll Shelby, the brash Texan who designed the Ford-powered Cobra, a solid contender in production-class races last year. Shelby spent 1,000 hours preparing for the race, figuring gear and axle ratios, tuning engines, using computers to help adjust the suspension to the track conditions at Florida's Daytona International Speedway. In the time trials, Mexico's Pedro Rodriguez won the pole position by clocking 113.7 m.p.h. in his V12 Ferrari prototype, and Shelby decided he needed a little strategy too. His plan: turn California...
...Lieut. Governor Carroll Gartin, addressing the Greenville Chamber of Commerce, counseled that "we must adjust to change or be destroyed by change." Said Gartin: "Businessmen, industrialists and civic leaders must speak up and speak out in a positive manner. We must not let the irresponsible become the voice of Mississippi, because in that silence we do our people the gravest injustice...
...calls for moderation, none was more remarkable than that issued by the 2,500-member Mississippi Economic Council, the state's foremost businessmen's organization. The council issued a statement urging Mississippians to accept and "adjust to the impact" of the new civil rights law. That law, it said, "cannot be ignored and should not be unlawfully defied." The statement demanded that "registration and voting laws should be fairly and impartially administered...